You can tell my life story based on my OT posts.
First it was how to ghetto rig a busted CV boot.
Then when I tried to take off the axle to do a real repair, I gassed myself (or managed to mess myself up in some other way)
Now I am asking about the actual axle.
Here's a picture of the outer CV joint separated from the axle.
It's attached via splines and is held in place by a snap ring or circlip or whatever you call it. There is a groove on both the male and female splines. The OD of the the circlip in its normal state is larger than the OD of the male splines, thus holding the two sets of grooves together. The way this joint is usually taken off is by using a drift against the inner race of the joint and whacking it with a really big hammer (or at least that's how I got it off). Somehow this force is strong enough to temporarily compress the circlip fully into the groove allowing the joint to slide off. It doesn't work if you don't hit it hard enough.
I was thinking of another way to pop off this joint, which is to machine two half cylinders that clamp together around the shaft, and then have screws parallel to the axis push off this joint. Doing it this way saves me from having to take the axle out of the transmission, thus not spewing fluid everywhere. (It would also save me from having my friend drive my sorry ass to another location that has a big vise and hammer to do the actual joint popping.) However, this type of contraption would create a steady force instead of the sharp impacts of a hammer. Would it still work at popping off this joint?
First it was how to ghetto rig a busted CV boot.
Then when I tried to take off the axle to do a real repair, I gassed myself (or managed to mess myself up in some other way)
Now I am asking about the actual axle.
Here's a picture of the outer CV joint separated from the axle.
It's attached via splines and is held in place by a snap ring or circlip or whatever you call it. There is a groove on both the male and female splines. The OD of the the circlip in its normal state is larger than the OD of the male splines, thus holding the two sets of grooves together. The way this joint is usually taken off is by using a drift against the inner race of the joint and whacking it with a really big hammer (or at least that's how I got it off). Somehow this force is strong enough to temporarily compress the circlip fully into the groove allowing the joint to slide off. It doesn't work if you don't hit it hard enough.
I was thinking of another way to pop off this joint, which is to machine two half cylinders that clamp together around the shaft, and then have screws parallel to the axis push off this joint. Doing it this way saves me from having to take the axle out of the transmission, thus not spewing fluid everywhere. (It would also save me from having my friend drive my sorry ass to another location that has a big vise and hammer to do the actual joint popping.) However, this type of contraption would create a steady force instead of the sharp impacts of a hammer. Would it still work at popping off this joint?
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