[s-cars] HELP - Half-shaft doesn't go into wheel hub.

[Mike Platt]

I think you'll be able to save the whole shebang. Just get the OD back down to size and then do the inside of each spine, then back to the OD one final time. Once your done, they should just slide together like they slid apart. Lemme know how you make out, it's only metal, and theres plenty of it you can remove without worry. I find it funny that that huge bolt holds the axle assy in the hub but only a small circlip inside the cv joint holds everything together.
  Good Luck!
  Mike (thinking of a Montreal trip for F1)

Vincent Frégeac <vfregeac at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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  Now I understand why Bill recommended your advice. Very detailled procedure to get out of trouble. I hope you’re right about the damaged spline. I’ll grab my triangular file and see if it’s just my fingers which are not sensistive enough.
   
  And you’re really talking mega torque here. I think I’ve never torqued the axle bolt so much. It seems it’s time to grab the mega torque-wrench too.
   
   
   
  Vincent.
   
      
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  De : Mike Platt [mailto:mplatt911 at yahoo.com] 
Envoyé : 4 avril 2006 17:12
À : Bill Mahoney; vfregeac at sympatico.ca
Cc : 'Mike Platt'
Objet : Re: [s-cars] HELP - Half-shaft doesn't go into wheel hub.

   
    Ah yes. Been there a few times. I think you have damaged the splines. The hub should slide right in. All is not lost. Of the four or five times I have taken the axle shafts out of Audis I have messed up the splines at least twice. One of them wasn't even my car! The procedure to fix them requires patience , a small flashlight, and a small file with a pointed edge(not squared). Figure on 45 minutes of filing dude. Using the breaker bar may have really trashed them a bit. I didn't go to that extreme when the didn't go together.

     

    Grab your flashlight and file and clean up the splines in the hub.The OD and the inside of splines. They will need to be tapered towards a point at the ends to allow the axle shaft splies to ease in. Then do the same thing with the axle shaft. When your done you should be able to get them to start easily at least halfway together. A ratchet wrend with light pressure should send it home. Them mega torques time. 150lbs with half turn afterwards. Or metric french equivalent;You take da wrench aye. Durn to da wight till really tight. Then you take the breaker bar, bfb, and a turn the nbolt there like half way dere side by each sorta.

     

     

    Good luck. You can fix it dude

      Vincent 

    The omnipotent Mike Platt I think can help you with this


    Bill M

    Mike, see below:


I replaced both control arms and a bearing today. I’ve been postponing this

repair for a few month as I was expecting a major pita

 (wheel bearings and

me are not friends). Surprisingly, it went very well. The bearing popped out

easily with the press, the new one went in as easily. Youpla. I bold the

suspension back in place, push the half-shaft end into the hub. Oups!

Doesn’t want to go in. Take it out, back in, giggle it a bit. Nothing.

 

 

 

I tried to use the old axle bolt to drive it in. It went a half inch in but

I had to use a breaker bar to turn the bolt. I removed the bold before

destroying anything and popped the axle out with a hammer. The filet on the

axle bolt was already in bad shape

 

 

 

So what? The splines in the hub seem to be in good shape according to

 my

fingers. Idem on the axle. Is it possible I’ve ovalised the hub when I

pushed out the inner ring of the bearing with the press? It would surprise

me. What can make the axle so hard to push back in when it went out  by its

own weight?

 

 

 

Any idea?
     

   
    
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