I got the thing back together quite easily. I jiggered the inner joint around a bit and it slid right on! Yay in that.
Getting the hub end back in with 2 LCA ball joints was a bit more challenging, one kinda conflicts with the outer CV joint but with various shifting around I got everything back together. Gotta tighten up the nuts and outer axle bolt in the hub then on to the right side. I’m gonna get another inner seal while I’ve got it apart. I was stupid snd didn’t order one, now I’m gonna have to go to the stealer. Called them this afternoon and their parts computer was down so the guy couldn’t check, but in JAX there were 27. Not that that does me any good tomorrow. I have to replace a LCA on the right, the ball joint was completely shot and rattling. Progress! --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jun 19, 2024, at 4:12 PM, Buggered Benzmail <buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The issue on both axles is this snap ring thing that sits in a slot on the > male axle spline then there is a corresponding slot in the female end. > Compressing it to get the axle off is the challenge. It’s brute force it > seems, you just have to physically overcome the whole purpose of it. This one > is on the left side with the male end on the diff. The ring actually stayed > on the stub when the cup came off so I can reuse that one. > > I’m starting to try to get it back together and of course there’s no way to > push the axle on, nothing to push on. I don’t really see how a compression > tool would work either as there is a little ramp on the end of the female end > that will fit over it, I’m not sure if it will actually compress it without > some force. But I shall have at it. > > The ring is almost at the outboard end of the shaft, the corresponding groove > is way up in the cup. > > <image0.jpeg> > > > > > --FT > Sent from iFōn _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
