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[ryan22_lgm]

bought a disc set up with driveshafts to convert from drums. on the end of the shafts (nearist to gearbox) they have ball bearings? in a cage? one side they are all there and the other they are missing? can i move them from the driveshafts already on the car? slightly confused with part names etc thanks ryan

[ryan22_lgm]

thanks i have heard that cvs can be a pain to get off? or will a bit of heat do the trick?

[ryan22_lgm]

thanks alot mate i will start this in the morning

[1984mini25]

Just hold it straight and give it a sharp knock with a hammer whilst holding the inner driiveshaft so you don't pull that out as well.
Doing it this way, also gives you the opportunity to clean and re-grease the CV.

At worst you have to cut the clip/tie on the inner pot join boot, remove the drive shaft from the car and hold in a vice and knock the cv joint off that way.

[Dan]

The ball cages, and the star shaped members they sit around, are the inner members of the pot joints fitted to the car they came from. Inner and outer parts of pot joints and their balls, as any moving part, are matched as a set once they have worn into each other. The best thing to do by far is to knock the star shaped members off your new shafts, pull the old shafts out of the inner joints on your car in the same way, and slide the shafts into the existing joints. Or else ditch the new shafts and only use the assembly from the CV joint outwards, fitting them to your existing shafts as said above. Cross breeding a set of pot joints like this, especially using worn balls from one joint in another, is extremely bad practise.