Outer CV Joint, Checking: Disassembling
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-- Mark position of ball hub to ball cage and to housing before disassembling, using electro-writer or grindstone.
-- Swivel the ball hub and ball cage.
-- Remove the balls one after the other.
-- Turn cage, until two rectangular windows -arrow- contact joint body.
-- Lift out cage with hub.
-- Swing hub segment with smaller pins into rectangular window on cage.
-- Fold hub out from cage.