Great pics!

 

thanks for posting, very helpful for me

glenn

 

digging up the very old thread but i am changing the outer boot for a 993. I am confused by Jason’s (also messaged him) easy way with the “wrong assembly”. The tunnels for the ***** on the inner race and casing are slanted in an angle. Putting the bearing back with the “wrong assembly” per the easy way above will have the inner race’ tunnels lined up (same angle) as the casing’s tunnels.How does that affect the bearing’s function? With the correct assembly, the tunnels on the inner race will point to the opposite angle of the casing’s. Is it designed that way to keep the ***** in the center?

Someone please explain. I have it put back in the “wrong assembly” method but too afraid to put it back in the car. The whole thing is not as wobbly as before.

why was it easy to disassemble but so difficult to put back. The inner racer and the outer cage aren’t flexible as before. Do I need to remove the other cover, too.

thx

 

I'm not sure I'm answering your question here but I recently did my axles and assembling the bearings the "right" way (as pictured above) was tricky but necessary. One hint I can give that is hard to explain: you need to use a soft hand approach to assemble it. What I mean is you use both hands but not allot of pressure or force. It's almost like massaging the bearings back into place. They will not want to stay in or will pop out on one side as you put them in on the other side. You can get the first few bearings in place but for the last one or two you almost have to float the entire assembly in your hands so that all the bearings are just about to come out, gently adjust slightly in one direction or the other to find the spot where they just kinda fall in with just a little bit of pressure. There's a narrow window where everything lines up and the whole thing will go back together but you have to be gentle enough that it almost falls into place. If you use lots of pressure the assembly binds up and won't fit back together. Sometimes during this process you'll go too far one way and the whole assembly will come apart or a bearing or two will pop back out. Be patient and gentle and try again. One last point - it will go together easily the wrong way so don't let that fool you. Check it to make sure the small ends line up with the large ends as shown above.

 

Yup, seeing how you describe the way you put it back is exactly my experience. It’s like it has its own mind, sometimes it seems so easy other times it seems impossible. Yesterday after giving up, I tried to remove the second cover (that holds the boot) thinking maybe it has to be removed. After an hour without success I decided to try it again and this time all the ***** just roll into the tunnels easily. I just had to use my left hand holding the casing up sideway while using the finger pushing the inner racer and the cage floating forward and use my right hand pull each slot out one by one. Other things, funny how people made it sound so easy to remove the cap by tapping it with a screw driver. It was not possible for me for the second cap as there is nothing can hold the casing firmly enough. May be it would be much easy if I try it while the assembly was still attached to the shaft. But in the end I didn’t need remove it.

oh, so I misunderstood Jason’s pic then. I though he meant it’s ok to do the easy way with the “wrong assembly”.

 

super helpful! Thanks!