Inner CV Joint, Checking: Installing: Notes

-- Insert ball hub into ball cage via two chamfers. The installation position is at random. Press balls into cage.

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Ball hub has 2 different distances between ball tracks, a larger and a smaller.

-- Insert hub with cage and balls upright into joint piece.

When inserting, make sure that in each case the wide gap -a- at joint piece contacts narrow gap -b- at hub after swinging in.

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Chamfer on inner diameter of ball hub (splines) must face large diameter of joint piece.

-- Pay attention to the bevel on the inner diameter of the ball hub. It must be visible.

-- Swing in ball hub, to do so swing out hub far enough from cage -arrows- so that the balls have the distance of the running paths.

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-- Swing in hub with balls by pressing forcefully onto cage -arrow-.

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