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GQ hub rebuild trouble

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GQ hub rebuild trouble

Post by Diggers »

G'day,

Just rebuilding the front end of a 88 GQ (manual hubs). The drive shaft seems to be sitting a couple of mm inboard and I can't get the clip on to the shaft. Any ideas where I may have slipped up??

Cheers,

Diggers
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Post by ozy1 »

did you try grabbing the end of the shaft with multi grips and giving it yank,

i found the fresh grease sends to cause some resistance,
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Post by Diggers »

Didn't want to damage the spline but will give it a crack.

Thanks mate!
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Post by twodiffs »

You can usually budge it by hand as well.
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Post by ozy1 »

ive been doing it that way for years and never damaged a spline, its the CV after all, if multi grips can damage it, it will have no hope holding up to the loads of wheeling
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Post by BeNoS »

not sure about nissans never been bothered to look lol but with the toyota shafts there is also a little threaded hole you can put a bolt into and pull it out with that. or i just put my circlip pliers in that said hole and give it a pull,
also you havent slipped up at all, its normal for the c.v joint to have a bit of in\out movement to allow for length changes when turning and stuff. so id say its all good.
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Post by rumpig89 »

what they have all said is right - just giv it a pull with multigrips and it'l come out. otherwise there is a thread as stated (8mm as a guess - never really looked at it tho) which u could put something in to pull out firmly.
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Post by twodiffs »

ozy1 wrote:ive been doing it that way for years and never damaged a spline, its the CV after all, if multi grips can damage it, it will have no hope holding up to the loads of wheeling
I wasn't saying that multi grips could damage it m8 ;) , it happens to me everytime I pull the bearings off etc and i've been able to pull it back out by hand...thats all I was saying.
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