OEM 2010 Cadillac STS CV Joint

2010 Cadillac STS Parts Questions & Experts Answers

• Q: How to replace the Front Wheel Drive Shaft Outer CV Boot and CV Joint on 2010 Cadillac STS?

  A: Secondly, in order to replace the front wheel drive shaft outer joint and boot, one must ensure that the wheel drive shaft has been dislodged from the vehicle. Always being careful to prevent the bearings from coming apart, completely cover the Axle Shaft in a shop towel and attach the wheel drive shaft horizontally to a bench vise in order to hold it. Utilise a side cutter to cut off and dispose of large and small seal retaining clamps from the outer joint seal. On the side with the large diameter, move the seal away from the joint face and separate the seal from the joint outer race. Clean out the grease from the inner race of joints, cage and balls. To remove the outer joint from the Axle Shaft, locate the housing of the outer joint horizontally, then put a wood block between the seal and joint and hit the block using a hammer to compress the Axle Shaft retaining clip. If needed use a brass drift on the inner race to help with forcing. After removing the outer joint, dispose the Axle Shaft retaining ring and seal and clean all components with solvent and air dry. Examine the inner race, outer race, cage, balls, and Axle Shaft for a breakage or abrasion. To assemble, place the cage upside with the larger radius corners up, place the inner race into the cage, make sure it is a complete assembly. Align the inner race ball tracks with the cage windows and then wrap a shop towel over the joint outer race splined shaft and secure it in a bench vise vertically. Set the inner race and the cage parallel with the outer race at the 90-degree angle while ensuring the inner race ring groove is set down. Mount balls sequentially pushing them down the cage for access to ball tracks and use a brass drift to ensure the cage and inner race are properly seated. Apply about 60 percent.of the grease, from the service kit, into the outer joint, on the ball tracks, balls, cage, and inner race. Remove the outer joint from the vise, and make sure to wrap the shop towel around the Axle Shaft before placing a new small seal retaining clamp and seal onto the Axle Shaft, followed by a new retaining ring. Fasten the inner race splines onto the Axle Shaft splines, compress the Axle Shaft retaining ring, and hammer the outer joint onto the shaft using an improvised wood-block and hammer till the inner race sits well onto the shaft. Install the remaining piece of grease into the seal, place the small seal retaining clamp into the seal boot groove, and crimp the latter using j42572 until you get an omega shape, which has 1 mm gap. Position the large seal retaining clamp onto the seal, to make sure that it is not deformed, and crimp it with j 42572 to ensure it also has a 1 mm gap. Finally, check the outer to run smoothly by taking the wheel drive shaft vertically for rotating it in a circular way for several times.