Citroen Xantia

1. Remove a power shaft (see. Removal and installation of power shafts).
2. Clamp a shaft in a vice with soft sponges (the external hinge up) and release two bandage tapes of fastening of a protective cover. In case of need tapes can be cut off.
3. Remove a cover from assembly of the external CV JOINT and shift it down on a shaft. Remove excess of greasing.
4. In the sharp blows of a hammer put through a brass drift, bring down from the shaft end the external CV JOINT. The hinge fastens on a shaft by means of a lock ring which when drawing blows on inside of assembly should will be drowned in the flute.
5. Having removed the hinge, take from a flute on a shaft pin a lock ring (at assembly the ring is subject to replacement without fail).
6. Remove from a shaft a protective cover of the external CV JOINT. Remove also plastic plug established from the interior of a cover.
7. Carefully wipe the hinge of equal angular speeds removed from a shaft (use kerosene, or other suitable solvent), then dry assembly and make visual check of its condition.
8. Move the internal conducted section equipped with shlitsa here and there, serially checking a condition of each of hinge balls at the top holders. Pay attention to such defects, as cracks and cavities.
9. Check a condition of paths of a kacheniye of internal and external sections of the hinge. Emergence of expanded sites leads to violation of density of landing of balls. At the same time estimate degree of wear of a separator, make sure of lack of cracks between its windows.
10. In case of identification of defective or worn-out components all assembly of the hinge is subject to replacement. In certain cases it is necessary to replace all assembly of a power shaft, - consult at car repair shop. If the condition of the hinge is recognized satisfactory, prepare the repair kit consisting of new lock rings, a protective cover with pair of bandage tapes and a tube with special greasing.
11. Process of installation of a new protective cover in detail see below in subsection "Installation of a new protective cover". Try to follow the provided instructions strictly. Pay attention that the cover not necessarily should be equipped with a plastic ring, besides, bandage tapes entering into a remnabor can differ from shown in pictures. For fastening of the shown bandage tapes it is necessary to compress together the lock ends, having completely chosen a taking place weak point, then accurately to bend an acting uvula бокорезами.
12. Check freedom of rotation of the CV JOINT in all directions, then establish on the car a power shaft (see. Removal and installation of power shafts).

1. Installation on a cover of the external CV JOINT of a ring from firm plastic.

2. Putting on of a protective cover is made after landing to a pin of a shaft of the new plastic plug (it is shown by an arrow).

3. Landing of inside of a cover to the plastic plug.

4. Landing of a new lock ring of fastening of the CV JOINT in the flute on a pin of a power shaft.

5. Landing of the CV JOINT to a shaft pin (make sure of reliability of fixing of assembly by a lock ring).

6. CV JOINT stuffing by greasing from a rem-set (greasing is squeezed out in the hinge at simultaneous rotation of the last); having finished, plant on hinge assembly external edge of a protective cover (the sealing fillet of a cover should get to a flute on a surface of external section of the CV JOINT).

7. Fixing of a protective cover by an external bandage tape by means of a hook and flat-nose pliers (track completeness of a vybiraniye of a weak point).

8. Trimming of surplus of the bent end of a bandage tape.

9. The free end of a bandage tape is bent under its lock.

10. Lock pressing for fixing in this situation.

11. Tightening of an internal bandage tape of fastening of a protective cover.

1. Remove a power shaft.
2. Remove the external CV JOINT (see subsection "Cover of the external CV JOINT", subitem 1 — 4).
3. Wind with an adhesive tape of a shlitsa of an external pin of a power shaft and accurately remove a protective cover of the external CV JOINT and the landing plastic plug.

Replacement of covers will need to be made in pair.

4. Release fixing bandages and remove from a shaft a protective cover of the internal hinge, and also its landing plastic plug. After a cover otpuskaniye the external section of the internal CV JOINT also can be removed from a shaft.

5. Carefully wash out hinge assembly by kerosene or other suitable solvent, then dry. Estimate a condition of components of tripodny assembly and external section of the hinge. Check freedom of rotation of rollers.
6. At identification of signs of wear or mechanical damages of tripodny assembly or external section the hinge is subject to replacement assembled with shaft. If the hinge as it should be, prepare the repair set consisting of a new cover, bandage tapes and a tube with special greasing. Originators of the real Management recommend to make at the same time replacement of a protective cover of the external hinge, regardless of its condition.
7. Fill assembly of the internal CV JOINT by greasing, pushing it in available internal cavities of the turned hinge.
8. Wipe a shaft and clear it of corrosion traces by means of a fine-grained emery paper. Try заполировать any teases and the roughnesses, capable to bring to failure of a new cover. Put on a shaft the new plastic plug and a protective cover of the internal CV JOINT. Get the plastic plug in special deepening on a shaft, from above plant a cover.
9. Put on a shaft pin external section of the hinge, from above pull a cover, having filled its edge in a flute on a body of external section. Plant external section on the hinge so that the podpruzhinenny plunzher was compressed, then raise cover edge for the purpose of alignment of pressure. Fix a cover two bandage tapes (see subsection "Cover of the external CV JOINT", item 11). Make sure of reliability of fixing of a cover bandages.