Hi gang.
This weekend , I wanted to tackle a job, that was inaverable anyway as I was postponing it as long as I could, but since I have ordered a re furbished font DIFF, time has come and I had to face a front diff replacement as I have send back the core to get a refund .
As I was maneuvering a diff out with help of a good friend , we realized , that front driveshaft, that connects diff to a Transfer case , was so seized , that we pulled a CV joint apart and bearings fell down. We had to torch -heat up a part. that was seized to diff pinion flange, and hammer it , just to separate it.
Now , I am left with a driveshaft , that has open CV joint and has to be re pack with grease , cage cleaned and put everything together , so we could install a diff to it .My question is :
- Can a driveshaft CV joint could be rebuilt, meaning bearings put back in the cage , flanged aligned and pressed back together or I am out of luck and have to buy a new front driveshaft ? I am guessing , somebody put it together at the factory , right ?It has to be a way to assemble everything together .
Should I take the driveshaft of the T case, somehow , put it on the proper work bench and try to press everything back ?
Lying under the LR3 in below zero took some life out of us today, for sure,but I am willing to go extra mile , if driveshaft is rebuildable.
Please , help me out , as I don't have other car to go to work and I am using friends garage , that lives 35 miles away, meaning, that somebody is gonna drop me off there, tomorrow , so we could continue the struggle . Bow down Cheers

 

Probly best to pull it so you can work on it on a bench , never done this type but I have done cv axle rebuilds

I would expect the end comes off/ apart with a c clip or snap ring and all slides off the tube boot and all exposing a spline that may be keyed

As far as grease I would guess it uses cv axle grease, same as d1 swivels 00 grease, real lawnmower shops sell it its cheap

 

It can be a pain to get off the truck, but considering trying to get everything back together with it on the car, I would pull the driveshaft off the t-case and go from there.

I've had this separate before, and it can go back together without issue. Only thing that concerns me here is it sounds like you didn't see it at first, so hopefully you aren't missing any parts.

 

I feel you Dave. Tom , thanks.Most parts on LR3 are pain to get it out.I did not loose any parts.I took out the cir clip, that holds a cage and cleaned everything spotless.
Parts are fine, bearings look good along with a input flange, that we finally separated from a diff. pinion flange .I cleaned the bearings cage , crush gasket( proper name I think ), put the bearings back and tried to insert the input flange back onto bearings cage, but could nat do that under the car.I would have to disconnect the driveshaft from a T case and try to do it on the work bench.applying flange back is tricky and probably requires a slight , constant turning, while pushing it onto a cage, as bearings are kind of loose there, holding by the grease , really, and can fall off at any time during the reconnection.I wonder why would LR say , that driveshaft could be installed back incorrectly , as I don't see any directional dimples or anything ,that indicates one way install. As I obtained new diff, I could not mark a position of the drive shaft flange in correlation with a diff.pinion flange It looks to me , that e 10 torx bolts are space out evenly, so no second guessing here.Does this matter ?