Honda Accord

1. Remove a power shaft (see the Section Removal and installation of power shafts).
2. Clamp the removed shaft in a vice with soft sponges.

1. Estimate an external condition of a protective cover of the CV JOINT, in the presence of the slightest doubts the cover should be replaced. Cut off bandage tapes of fastening of a cover and shift the last from the hinge to the center of a shaft.

2. Having previously carefully wiped components, paint, or by means of a chertilka mark the provision of assembly of the tripodny bearing on the relation to an external holder of the hinge. Remove a holder from the bearing.

3. Remove a spring lock ring from an external pin of a shaft.

4. Fix bearing rollers, having wound them with an adhesive tape, then bring down tripodny assembly from a shaft, having used a hammer and a brass drift.

5. Take a lock ring and remove an old protective cover from a power shaft.

1. Carefully remove greasing traces from an external holder of the hinge and cavities of the tripodny bearing. Serially, not to mix, remove each of sections of tripodny assembly and wash out rollers of needle bearings solvent.
2. Check rollers, bearings, the bearing part of tripodny assembly and an external holder of the hinge for existence of signs of excessive wear of cavities, zadir, cracks and other mechanical damages. In case of need replace the CV JOINT.

3. Put tripodny assembly on a shaft.

4. Record tripodny assembly by an external lock ring.

5. Grease with special dense greasing inside of needle roller bearings for the purpose of temporary fixing them on the bearing elements of tripodny assembly. Track that each roller was established strictly on the former place. If rollers are equipped a lysky rectangular shape, track that they were established by this lysky to a shaft.

6. Half fill an external holder of the hinge the greasing delivered complete with a new cover. The remains of greasing fill a cover. Establish an external holder on a shaft. Track correctness of combination of the tags of mutual provision of a holder and the tripodny bearing put in the course of dismantle.

7. Fill cover sponges in flutes on an external holder of the hinge and a body of a shaft, then adjust length of assembly of a shaft according to requirements of Specifications.

8. Having exposed shaft length, let out the air from under a cover, having hooked its external (bigger diameter) edge a stupid screw-driver. Try not to damage a cover.

9. Fix a cover new bandage tapes / collars.

10. Establish assembly of a shaft on the car (see the Section Removal and installation of power shafts).

1. Working according to the instructions stated in paragraphs with 1 - 5 remove the internal CV JOINT from a power shaft and sort it.
2. If the shaft is equipped with a damper of dynamic loadings, mark with paint the provision of the outer edge of damping assembly concerning a shaft, then cut off a collar and remove a damper.

When replacing components it is necessary to track observance of distance between a cover of the internal CV JOINT and a damper (see Specifications).

3. Cut off bandage tapes and remove a protective cover of the CV JOINT from a shaft.

The external CV JOINT is not subject to dismantling and removal from a shaft.

1. Carefully wash out internal and external CV JOINTS solvent, then dry them with use of compressed air.

When using compressed air do not forget to put on goggles! As the external CV JOINT is not subject to dismantling, removal of traces of old greasing from it and solvent is connected with certain difficulties, however has to be made very carefully.

2. Turning a hinge casing under various corners, attentively study a condition of balls, holders and a separator of the bearing. In case of detection of defects replace assembly of a shaft.

2. At the corresponding complete set of the car put a damper of dynamic loads of a shaft. Track that the outer edge of a damper was placed according to the tags put in the course of dismantle.

When replacing a shaft assembled with the external hinge the damper is leveled rather protective cover of the external CV JOINT according to results of the measurement performed in paragraph 20.

3. Wash out and collect assembly of the internal CV JOINT (see paragraphs with 8 on 17). Establish assembly of a power shaft on the car (see the Section Removal and installation of power shafts).