Contents: Rear and front shafts ↓ Intermediate shaft ↓
Rear and front shafts
Apply marks (with paint or a center punch), determining the relative position of the mating parts in order to connect them during assembly in the same position to maintain shaft balancing.
Place the front (rear) propeller shaft in a vice with aluminum pads. Remove the retaining rings using round-nose pliers.
Press out the bearing housings from the hinge forks, for which:
- install the cardan shaft of one of the cardan joint forks on support 1 (Fig. 3-50) of the press. Through a special bushing 2, use the press rod to move the other fork 3 of the joint down until it stops against the crosspiece;
- after turning the hinge fork by 180°, repeat the above operations, i.e. move the other end of the fork down until it stops in the crosspiece. When performing these operations, the opposite bearing of the crosspiece will partially come out of the fork hole and in the resulting gap between the fork and the crosspiece, it will be possible to install bushing 1 (Fig. 3-51) with a side cutout for further complete disassembly of the bearing;
- installing bushing 1 (see fig. 3-51) on the crosspiece tenon, move the hinge fork down until the bearing is pressed out;
- using the above techniques, press out the other crosspiece bearings.
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Intermediate shaft
Disconnect the elastic coupling from flange 5 (fig. 3-49), noting the number and location of the balancing washers 17 and the coupling itself relative to the flange, so that during assembly they can be installed in their original places.
If the protective cover 6 or casing 14 is damaged, when it is necessary to check the condition of the hinge parts and the quality of the lubricant, having marked the position of the hinge relative to the flange of the elastic coupling, disassemble the hinge using the techniques described in subsection. "Front wheel drive".