Half Shaft / Axle Refurbishment

[mwilkinson]

I'm waiting on the final parts of my subframe rebuild to arrive and I have been pondering whether or not to buy new half shafts / axles for the car.

 

I know they are expensive and therefore I have instead been looking to see to what extent it is possible to refurbish the ones I already have.

 

I can see that many of the boots, gaskets and clips are still available, but on review of the manuals the dismantling procedure requires the dreaded Toyota SST.

 

I'd like to dismantle the shafts and have them all cleaned up, new boots and clips and for the CV joints to be regressed.

 

Has anyone ever done this?

 

CW, Lee or Paul, please feel free to chip in.

[mwilkinson]

Bump. Anyone?

[SupraTRD_MK4]

I have done this but not on a JZ model car however I am of the belief that all cv joints are the same. Just inner ones on fwd cars differ with a tripod inside the cup. You can remove the clamp, remove the boot or in this case push it back off unless you want to remove the outer cv joint then you can tap that off with a brass hammer or rubber mallet like I do around the edge after removing that boot as well since it is a small circlip that holds it in place on the shaft. You can use thinners or some other detergent and flush the old grease out and then use compressed air to blow it out dry from the joint. You can then repack the cv with grease but ensure you regrease it properly. If you have experience with greasing wheel bearings it is more or less the same principle. Mind you there is a method of removing the ball bearings within and then removing the cage and cleaning it and probably replacing the ball bearings with new ones of same size but that is a hard job according to me.

You get different clamps for the boots. DO NOT use tie straps. You can get special pliers for the clamps as they are sold at tool shops for the cv joint boot clamp. Others require the use of a hammer and plier to tie them up correctly and most importantly do use gloves.

Edited July 23, 2018 by SupraTRD_MK4 (see edit history)

[mwilkinson]

Thanks for the above input. If I can avoid totally dismantling them that would be ideal. I mainly want to clean up the visible shafts and believe that in order to do this effectively I would need to get to a section under the boot itself.

 

I've got one of the proper clamp tools and a few clamps themselves lying around the garage. No jubilee or cable ties will be used

[SupraTRD_MK4]

Should be easier to accomplish then mate. Always good to have some new grease in them joints. Wonder if any manufacturer list a service interval on them.