97 Civic LX manual no abs

Ok, got the old one out, went and picked up a Cardone remaned one at O'reilly.

Put the outer joint to the knuckle: check

Put the inner joint into the tranny: problem

At first, it slides in easy, and then I would guess there is about an inch or less left to go, and it stops and wont go in any further.

If I am looking at the inner joint from below, there is the thinest part that has the splines, then moving away from the splines there is a thicker band, and then there is the housing for the inboard joint. Right at the point that thicker band meets the tranny is where it stops.... what am I doing wrong?

I even drew a picture. Big X's are the inboard joint, C's are the thicker part of the shaft going into the tranny, little x's are the thinner part of the shaft with the splines. Where the C's start is where it stops going in!

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That black line is how far in it goes, the distance between the black line to the thicker part below is about as long as the splines... do I just need to push harder?


Modified by jds62f at 7:40 PM 11/21/2005

 

bump for a problem I need help with.. anyone? :-(

 

ok heres I've changed axles on a b16 and a d15b7. both of them easy to come out but yes i know what you are talking about. heres what you have to do.

reach into the shaft and make sure all its all greased up and everythings all lined up. push it in. then when you get to the part where you are i know it is very difficult to go in. you are suppose to get a BRASS HAMMER, keep the axle as straight as possible and slowly tap it with the brass hammer and it'll go in REAL REAL REAL REAL easy. i did it last week and i asked my instructor and he said get the brass hammer. works perfect!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jxmac2o6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok heres I've changed axles on a b16 and a d15b7. both of them easy to come out but yes i know what you are talking about. heres what you have to do.

reach into the shaft and make sure all its all greased up and everythings all lined up. push it in. then when you get to the part where you are i know it is very difficult to go in. you are suppose to get a BRASS HAMMER, keep the axle as straight as possible and slowly tap it with the brass hammer and it'll go in REAL REAL REAL REAL easy. i did it last week and i asked my instructor and he said get the brass hammer. works perfect! </TD></TR></TABLE> agreed that little circlip on the end has to lock into place to hold it on just be gentle

 

i used the hub to smash it in

 

yepp i had that problem today but pushed as hard as i could and it finally went in

 

happen to me on the passenger side when i did my clutch, it helps if you turn it back and forth while you push in then you should feel the rest of it go in.

 

what also helps (and i have no idea why) is to turn the clip on the end of the axle so that the gap faces up. it works every time, and to this day it still boggles my mind.

 

no need for hammer... just push on the hub shown in your last picture and put your weight into it.. pushing by hand force alone won't work most of the time.. you gotta put your weight into it and then push it in.. that should do it... first time around i had to do it i was having the same problems... then once i got the hang of it, it's extremely easy... no need for hammers!

 

I'm a sucker for new tools, so with the suggestions I got I went out a dead blow hammer and it went in like nothin!