You are right, better safe than sorry.
Gordon wrote:
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>>Wow, this sounds scary.
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>>What year is your car? MT or AT?
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>>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
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>>seen have this. The joint can extend alot before it actually comes
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>>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.
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> MAybe. When I replaced the HAlf Shaft on my Altima I was bombarded
> with warnings about not pulling the inner bearing apart.
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>>With respect to the tranny gears, I have not seen a design such as
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>>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.
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> 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.
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>>In any case, best of luck!
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>>Bill wrote:
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>>>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
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>>>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.
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>>>Bill
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