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MuddyMike:
Did you completely strip the swivel housing down and clean out all the bits of the old CV joint. Bits of steel can hide in there and mess up the new one pretty quick.

Mike

H:
had a latex glove on groping about in the grease pretty sure I got all of them but was late and cold and I wanted to get home to a pie and a pint, so I could of missed something in my rush, replaced the swivel housing bearing top and bottom both sides last week too would this require all the shims ptting back in on the top one or is there a correct metheod of establishing how many and what thickness?

H

MuddyMike:
You need to remove the swivel housing completely and wash it out to ensure all the bits are out. If you replaced the swivel bearings you will need to re set the preload by adding or removing shims. You do this with a spring balence on the track rod connecting point with trak rods disconnected. I dont have the poundage to hand at present but could probably find out for you. I know here are two different settings one with swivel oil seal in place and a lower one without.

Mike

MuddyMike:
Now have the pre-load figures
12 pounds with the seal in place
3-4 pounds with the seal out.

Mike

Range Rover Blues:
OOhhh that's worth remembering as I'm going to re-check mine now it's been driven.

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