Citroën C5 TOURER 2.0 HDi - How to get CV joint off the shaft?

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Re: Citroën C5 TOURER 2.0 HDi - How to get CV joint off the shaft?

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I think there's a strechy one and the cone to fit it here in my shed, I had a pair delivered and only used one, trouble is I can't remember what car it was for. :(
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Re: Citroën C5 TOURER 2.0 HDi - How to get CV joint off the shaft?

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sparksie wrote: 13 Jan 2019, 21:41
In answer to Homer's question, I can't recall when the one-piece drives were in common use, but I would have been not long out of school and the cars we found them on would have been out of warranty, in the second half of the 1980s, so I suspect they may have been manufactured in the early 1980's, or late 1970s. Pretty sure they were French, though could be wrong.


The only other I can recall doing was a Fiat 128 which if I remember had a circlip similar to the one pictured holding the tripode in place and was a pig to find buried in the grease. That will have been a 1977 or 78 model.

Never did them on the GS and the only earlier cars I worked on were RWD with beam axles. Did help replace the driveshaft on my dad's Volvo 144 when the universal joint broke though.

Our X7 spent most of it's time having the steering rack removed and replaced so I didn't do much work on that myself. :rofl2:
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Re: Citroën C5 TOURER 2.0 HDi - How to get CV joint off the shaft?

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Homer wrote: 14 Jan 2019, 15:09Our X7 spent most of it's time having the steering rack removed and replaced so I didn't do much work on that myself. :rofl2:
Now where've I heard that before! :rofl2:
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Re: Citroën C5 TOURER 2.0 HDi - How to get CV joint off the shaft?

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Ah, yes. Fond memories of those!
Low pressure gearbox, with 20/50 oil retained by the inner boot.
Yes, the circlip on those outer joints was very difficult to find in the black molybdenum grease and if memory serves, was not compatible with conventional circlip pliers, once you had found it.
The inner end was a tripod, very similar to the modern ones, but running directly in the diff, immersed in the transmission oil. Any damage to the inner boot meant losing all the oil from the gearbox, but the tripods were easily removed because of the thin lube keeping everything clean.
There was no carrier bearing either, with Fiat using unequal length shafts and not worrying about torque steer, which was easy to provoke with those feisty little 1100cc ohc motors.
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