This guy is a godsend on Rennlist forum. You can read on how to do something all day long, but nothing is better than seeing. We all appreciate Van's time and effort to do these tutorials. These are just several of the many vids he has done... This info is immeasurable in helping others.

Wow. Great video Van! Very well done - slow, calm, organized, great camera & audio work. I've always been intimidated by CVs - had a few go bad on me on my old VWs. I'm about to get some used axles with CVs for my old Porsche, and I was hesitant in case the boots or CVs were iffy. Your video explains a lot of what I was probably doing wrong in the past and I've now no fear about tackling it! Thank you sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar (and there's not many of us left :). cheers, jt 😎

Great video, more helpful than just for the VC. The thing is you sound exactly like my dentist, which reminds me, I need to schedule a cleaning.

Great video, thanks for posting!

Excellent presentation. Explanation very short & sharp. Easy to understood theory & practical. Double thumbs up to Mr. Van Svenson for your very useful info. I really enjoy watching all your videos clip. I liked your way of tutorial, slow & calm. Once again a big thank you to you to gave me some useful tips... You are Professor David Einstein of modern mechanical engineers. :-)

Great video thank you. All my questions I had about replacing my CV boots were anwered in this video.

Thanks for this video, very professional. I did the taking apart portion unintentionally as the joint came out of the car, this video helped me put it back together (-:

Fantastic!!! This is exactly what I've been looking for!

Thanks from Egypt.

Great video. I'm in the process of replacing cv joints on my '86 vw t3 van. Not much different and has given me a lot of insight.

I so agree with the first commenter, this is a very helpful tutorial and EVERYONE should watch it.. I was so lost when I was following my Bentley Service manual. I have a Volkswagen so not much different than a porsche. I managed to assemble it again.. Help to this video you posted. It is strange that I can't copy this.. I really do not want to sell it just want it for future refering. Must be something youtube made it that way

Very well done. Nice video. I'm gonna do a 2003 Porsche 996 turbo front CV joint. I've done BMW joints before never a Porsche. Can't be too different, my M3 was very similar to what you showed here. Thank you for such a clear and complete demonstration, very easy to follow.

@mikec1096

8 жыл бұрын

can you make a video of the 996 turbo joint job? thanks

@Engineerboy100

8 жыл бұрын

I did a video of that job if you want to do a search on my channel

@mikec1096

8 жыл бұрын

i just saw, thanks!

Very informative

finally a guy that wears gloves to do a job...NICE !!! best quote of the day ...pressing your balls into a new place...! genius !

Wow yours came apart so easily. My new boot was the same design of no tie boot as your old one which was extremely tight on the shaft and was a killer to get on and over the various lips. Also the inner race was solid on my splines......had to use heat and hammer the hell out of it to get it off those splines. This was a GKN new shaft only 4 years old. Then on reassembly the C clip wouldnt sit properly partly my fault as I had hammered the end of the shaft so hard I might have distorted the groove slightly but it went on eventually. This is a very messy job. Lots of rags gloves and towels required.

Thans for the great video

Great video, thanks

thanks for your video

Thanks, very good one.

Awesome thank you sooo much!

Very helpful

Excellent instructional video. I would like to see the part where you remove the shaft from the car.

that is exacly what i am doing , but for some reason i am stuck i cant get the darn balls and cage back in the outer ring? i did it dry they would not move like they should so i took it back apart grease a little and i been playing with this for at least 2hours LOL trying to get all of it back in like it should and flex like it should let me keep watching there must be something i missed because i had it together twice without grease now that its greased its killing me LOL,,,thats mechanics for you lol . nice job ,,i need to do the same thing make sure the whole thing moves like it should before i buy the boots ,,,get it ? thanks for sharing

I repair and resuse everything- car parts computers, electronics , tvs ect. BUT with CV joints it tricky. When a joint starts to click, it means the extremely tight gap groves have pitting or damage some times very small but under great pressure with small clearances, the balls jam then jump over and slide. Can you smooth this out? Well in doing so you can remove a bear fraction of metal - now the clearance is too much . Its a precise curve that fits the hardened ball. Can some manufacturers do this well? hmm Joints are so cheap now and even the whole axle with both joints, so cheaper just to buy. OEM joints last so long and cost so much because they are made of the strongest metals and exact gaps. Cheap Chinese eg joints use weaker metal and soon they start clicking. I got a GSP joint and the first KM, it was clicking but not binding. Its the same now after 10,000 kms and i will pull it off as soon as it sounds worse. I also got a rear bearing for a little corolla and in a year its still quiet but wont hold my breath. The rear bearing is under less stress than a front CV joint so all things equal the bearing with similar metal quality may last longer before grinding. After market stuff is considered about half the life of OEM but some are really good and can go a long time.

I’ve probably watched this video 5-10 times! I have a question though, I race a 2-liter 911, how do you prevent the CV from leaking and spraying grease all over the calipers / starter?

Excellent tutorial. I got lost when you wanted to flip the spider due to wear. I think you said you were going to move it from an inside to an outside. You later refer to a ring from the beveled washer. If this washer must be on a specific side doesn't' that give you the same wear points? That's where I am lost. Working on my cv's this week so I am loading up on info. This was by far the best one I found. Thank you!

What do you mean by change the orientation? Are you flipping the spider gear or just keeping the joint the as is and flipping the whole axle around so the inner is now the out and vise versa?

say you need to rebuild one where do you buy the components to do so...

Flip the whole axle so the inner is now the outer. Keep the orientation of the individual pieces the same.

It was going well for me, but after the 4th ball was installed, the joint would not move...no marks on the spider races or balls...what I"m I doing wrong?

@Greighps

7 жыл бұрын

i'm having this same issue. did you figure anything out? i knows been awhile since you posted, but just curious.

@timclark4058

7 жыл бұрын

somehow I mixed up two sets of CV joints, they need to be matched the original set up, each is unique.

You can rebuild them until there's pitting in the metal "spider" gear.

Hey there, I really enjoyed this video along with the other partnering video. I'm rebuilding my Volkswagen engine and in the process I have made the inner cv joint (the one closest to the transmission) come disassembled.. I was really really hoping you could let me download this video so that I can watch it on my ipod and not have to get back on my computer on youtube.. It would really help out so I do not get it all moly greased up..

did you find anything out about that problem with flipping them? going to be doing the same job myself and im curious about it :D

I had a guy replace my axles, he said the Import Direct brand is so cheap and when he was putting them on they fell apart. I got an idea he was lying and did not not know what he was doing? Are they that cheap that they fall apart that easy. Then he said he eventually put them back together and when I got my car back and tested it on the freeway I got a weird clunking noise. The noise then went away and did not come back when I jumped on the freeway for the second time. Now I'm wondering if the guy did the job right?

@vsvenson

5 жыл бұрын

He probably did the job right, since it sounds like they're "working". But, beware the cheap parts - they tend to not last long.

good

muy bien

@herrisetiawan6482

6 жыл бұрын

Felix Heredia uiik

@herrisetiawan6482

6 жыл бұрын

Felix Heredia hj

Just one thing, its a 'Bellelville' washer not bevel, named after the inventor. A bevel washer is something else completely different

@martinjcamp

6 жыл бұрын

That's an important observation. This type of washer is actually a Spring, and is therefore much more important than your typical washer. Keeps constant tension on that part the assembly.

Thanks for sharing this. I just finished mine last weekend. Would you believe it I had to cut 10mm off each bolt to 40mm from the original 50mm length. CV joint kits sold at Design911.co.uk and type911.co.uk don't feature the 'spacer' mount, just a pressed into shape piece of tin. My car 1984 Carrera 3.2. Job done well though so thats good for another 30 years. Vids are always better than picture frames of each stage. Great work there!

Great vid thank you! however technically this isn't a rebuild. Rebuilding a joint would consist of honing out the races and installing oversized ball bearings .

like 1am in the morning and i totally failed to rebuild my one inner cv

4:30 I would not want what looks like file shavings around the base of your vise anywhere near a ball bearing or CV joint.

I read in the Haynes manual for the 944 and on Clark's garage that one should mark the orientation of the various parts of the CV joint before disassembly so that they can be reassembled in the original orientation; however, you didn't do this. Is this really not that important or is it special to the 944?

@vsvenson

9 жыл бұрын

It is important to observe or mark the inside/outside orientation. However, typically the tolerance on each ball is so similar to the others that I don't think mixing up their orientation matters. But, if you feel comfortable marking everything, it certainly can't hurt!

@williamburkland2177

9 жыл бұрын

Your video was a great help since I accidentally forgot to mark one of my joints during my first CV rebuild today so it was nice to see someone explain the process without using any markings. Perhaps the marks just make the reassembly process easier especially for beginners. Thanks for the reply and great video.

@Engineerboy100

8 жыл бұрын

+Van Svenson Yep, I learned that the hard way when I did my M3 ... :( the tolerance did not allow it to go on the wrong way, has some "fun" playing with it toll I figured that out.