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GQ hub rebuild trouble
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:12 pm
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
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:23 pm
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,
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:31 pm
by Diggers
Didn't want to damage the spline but will give it a crack.
Thanks mate!
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:41 pm
by twodiffs
You can usually budge it by hand as well.
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:16 pm
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
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:26 pm
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.
good luck
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:23 pm
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:39 am
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.