volvo update. I need the car to get to a lesson tomorrow hence the need to get it fixed. + another wednesday.
Bottom line it is now fixed!! (as of 3hours ago)
But,.. if you look at the earlier photo you'll notice the one end I changed is sitting 'bolt' straight. It is now flexing like the other end.
Course this was all news to me also when I mounted it in the gearbox and realised it wasn't right, being rigid it stuck out at 90degrees and would in no way ever meet the wheel bearing, being 2_ inches too high, and the wrong angle!
SO I pulled it out, which was easy as hadn't quite slid fully home, undid the circlips again, and then,.. took the lump hammer to it to get it apart. At one point after a few minutes I thought, fook me I'm going to need a new drive shaft, this is getting nowhere.
Then with flat screwdriver prying at the race (not shown in any photos but it's a round stainless steel sleeve with 6 slots in it for the ball bearings to sit) I noticed it moved a bit.
I withdrew it and breated a sigh of relief.
My newly cleaned hands and axle and tools soon began to get very greasy.
I was wearing gloves, when I pulled the left off there was grease inside it.
I refitted it a second time. Again, no movement, and once it's in, getting it out is a bastard. Getting it in wrong is really easy, getting it out again a pain.
I removed it and sat on the 5 legged stool I'd taken down there to sit on. I thought, the 6 grooves inside the tulip are going this way, the balls going to go that way .. had I been putting it in wrong? .. yes I had.
So I put it together a third time, with the method of both hands circumnavigating the race to prevent the bearings dropping out and pushing the race to the back end of the knuckle to the point where the balls were just out of their individual angled grooves of the knuckle. This allowed me to slide the tulip toward the knuckle with the corresponding grooves lined up, and then bring the knuckle and clasped bearing forward. Slotting into place the joint was now free to move. And I thought, thank fuking god for that, it worked>!
Course I then spotted the small gaitor clip i'd just tightened clip on was not in the right spot on the shaft so had to undo the again, using a nail and flat screwdriver etc (first time was hardest, got easier 2nd and 3rd)
After that, retighten both clips, pop back into gearbox ... Course I then spotted the small gaitor clip i'd just tightened was not in the right spot on the shaft so had to undo it again! using a nail and flat screwdriver etc (first time the hardest, got easier 2nd and 3rd) (...... so then pop back into gearbox, and it went fully home nicely with the now correct angle of attack)
I fitted the other end of the shaft back into the wheel hub and thought about coming up for a cup of tea but changed my mind and just carried on, considering the time wasted in cleaning up only to get dirty again. The track rod was attached (steering joint) and fully tightened,
I started the car and ran it in 1st gear. Brilliant, revolving as it should, no knocks, perfect.
So then just the fitting of the new ball joint triangle (the original fault).
re: light speed, it seemed to take 20 minutes to do all the above after getting the cv joint sorted but was more like 90.
Coil spring no longer rubbing inner wing when on full lock as vertical alignment correct (when joint popped it pushed shaft out into the wheel bay, kicking out the bottom of the suspension leg, thus in at top causing the coil spring to rub
Put wheel back on, off jacks, ready to roll tomorrow. Barn paying for itself already.
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