Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

Planting the tiny pin bearings.

Each roller holds 10’s of these and there are 12 rollers in total so by the time I’m done with 100’s of pin bearings, my eyes and shoulders are always tired.

Initially, I noticed break down of grease especially at the right drive shaft but none of the rollers showed any signs of damages at the internal wall ...

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Started the OH of drive shafts.
Not much to report or taking photos during this process as it’s such a messy and greasy tasks….

1st stage cleaning and inspection done on all 12 rollers.
No critical markings in the pillow pocket area so moving onto the disassembly and re-planting the 100’s of pin bearings. ...

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Driveshaft

After struggling with the seized and rusty bolt, nut, pin, etc, finally things started to go smoothly.

Both drive shafts came off and although the joint housing looked very rusty (quite normal), the wheel speed sensor trigger teeth were all clean without any corrosion so very good news.

The rubber boots at both ...

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As mentioned earlier, since this NSX is fairly new, I was expecting easy life this week.

Wrong idea…… Should have known better by now……


Surprisingly, I struggled to loosen the spindle nut at the rear hub on such a beautiful low mileage fairly new NSX.

At the end, I had to spend extra time and had to apply well over 800Nm to loosen it on both sides.

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Temporarily placed back the wheel and torqued the big spindle nut to the 329Nm.
Then, used the special chisel designed for drive shaft service to stake and lock the nut.


Torqued all of the suspension related bolts and nuts under 1G and started the engine
and placed the car in 1st gear just to see everything is not touching anything. ...

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Driveshaft