AS <donot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:13fcqa2o5b2uld4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Wow, this sounds scary.
>
> What year is your car? MT or AT?
>
> With respect to the inner joint, don't these have a ring that prevents
> the tripod bearings from coming out completely? Most of the ones i
have
> seen have this. The joint can extend alot before it actually comes
out
> of its place. In the past, the only thing I needed was to raise the
> outer half shaft and push it in, no need to disassemble.
MAybe. When I replaced the HAlf Shaft on my Altima I was bombarded
with warnings about not pulling the inner bearing apart.
>
> With respect to the tranny gears, I have not seen a design such as
this
> in which things can just fall into the tranny. I have seen a few in
> which two gears are rotated together by the shaft and it may require
> rotating the shaft while introducing it, to align both gear's splines.
>
Perhaps I was being too parinoid. My Nissan 310 had warnings about
the pinnion falling into the tranny while the half shaft was out.
I just natrally extrapolated that to my Altima.
> In any case, best of luck!
>
> Bill wrote:
>> I was changing the shocks. I failed to sup****t the hub properly. I
>> started putting in the finished passenger side strut and the axle
>> seems extended with the boot stretched at the engine mounted bearing.
>> It's too dark to work so tomorrow I plan to detach the control arm
and
>> punch the spline axle out of the hub then try to work it around until
>> it finds its home in the bearing. I was wondering if it might be a
>> better approach to start the engine and put it in reverse and hope to
>> catch the spline for the bearing. I welcome suggestions. Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
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