Inner CV Joint, Checking: Installing
-- Insert ball hub into ball cage via two chamfers. The installation position is at random. Press balls into cage.
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.
Chamfer on inner diameter of ball hub (splines) must face large diameter of joint piece.
-- Also note chamfer on inner diameter of ball hub, it must be visible after swiveling in.
-- Swing in ball hub, to do this swing out hub far enough from cage -arrows- so that the balls have the distance of the running paths.
-- Swing in hub with balls by pressing forcefully onto cage -arrow-.
CV Joint, Checking for Function
CV joint is properly assembled, if ball hub can be slid back and forth by hand over whole compensation length.