AuthorTopic: Tech Help - How to remove CV joint from Vitara drive shaft?  (Read 3269 times)

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Hi,

I am trying to fit a new outer CV boot on the front right shaft of my Vitara and can't work out how to remove the outer CV joint from the shaft?

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Re: Tech Help - How to remove CV joint from Vitara drive shaft?
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 22:42:47 »
hi m8 there is a circlip you have to remove
clean all the grease you can and ur see it


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Re: Tech Help - How to remove CV joint from Vitara drive shaft?
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 22:59:51 »
On the outer L/h (the r/h prob the same)outer there is a spring clip on the end of the shaft.Stick the shaft in a vice and hit the cv joint with a hide or plastic hammer this will compress the ring and catch the cv.You can then strip the cv as normal,rolling the cv to drop the balls out.The inner l/h pushes out towards the bolted end.Make sure you get the right boot as I was offered four types for mine.The haynes manual says they do n't come apart,anything does with a big hammer.
Now got some camacs and bfg a/ts can't get it stuck.Need longer legs.

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Re: Tech Help - How to remove CV joint from Vitara drive shaft?
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2009, 23:37:36 »
Just seen the photo,it's the drvers side.If you clean around the inside(transmission end) of the outer cv joint there is a split ring around the inside edge remove this and you should be able to remove the balls.the haynes manual shows it quite good.
Now got some camacs and bfg a/ts can't get it stuck.Need longer legs.

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Re: Tech Help - How to remove CV joint from Vitara drive shaft?
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2009, 16:25:11 »
Don't bother splitting the CV joint, get a stretchy boot, they just slip over the whole joint, you can use a 2 litre pop bottle or buy a special cone, the boots are about a fiver and the cones are about £7, the first one I did I used the pop bottle method, but it scrunches a bit, so the next time I bought a cone, what an absolute doddle.

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