Drive Shafts, Removing and Installing

Drive shafts, removing and installing
Removing
- Unbolt hex bolt for drive shaft. (Loosen only when vehicle is standing on wheels -danger of accident-).
- Remove wheel.





- Unbolt drive shaft at flange shaft.
1. hex key head bolt or multi-point key head bolt
- Disconnect ABS vehicle speed sensor wiring out of retainer on brake caliper -arrow-.
- Disconnect ABS vehicle speed sensor out of wheel bearing housing slightly.





- Remove nut -1-, take out hex bolt and pull both control arms -2- out upward.
- The slits in the wheel bearing housing must not be widened using a chisel or similar tool!
- If the hex bolt cannot be removed from the wheel bearing housing, then the hex bolt and the links -2- must be pressed out of the wheel bearing housing.

Note: Do not loosen bolts -3- and -4- otherwise the front axle alignment is changed!

- Swing wheel bearing housing in direction of arrow away to side.
- Remove drive shaft.

Installing
- Insert drive shaft onto transmission shaft and into wheel bearing housing.
- Insert upper links into wheel bearing housing, insert new bolt and tighten new nut -2.
- When tightening press upper links downward as far as possible!
- Bolt drive shaft to transmission.
- Tighten multi-point socket head bolts to prescribed tightening torque using diagonal sequence.
- Install inner joint to drive shaft and initially tighten bolts diagonally to 10 Nm.
Multi-point socket head bolt M 8 x 48, Refer to Front Drive Shaft With Constant Velocity Joint, Servicing, item 15
Multi-point socket head bolt M 10 x 20, Refer to Front Drive Shaft With Constant Velocity Joint, Servicing, item 15
Multi-point socket head bolt M 10 x 48, Refer to Drive Shaft With Triple Roller Joint, Repairing, item 13
- Push ABS vehicle speed sensor into wheel bearing housing onto stop and insert cable in retainer on brake caliper.
- Install wheel and tighten.
- Tighten drive shaft hex bolt only with vehicle standing on its wheels -danger of accident.