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

Now the Left side.





The outboard joint was slashing the grease everywhere over the years and it managed to create wall of grease in many areas….



I think I’ll be spending extra hours cleaning them…








The trigger teeth had lots of debris but it ...

Updated 01-03-2011 at 02:50 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Some of the readers here may have experienced the same thing…


For some reason, once I started working on a specific part on one NSX, then the trend seems to follow for the following cars waiting to be serviced.


For a while, I was overhauling lots of brake callipers on many NSX for a few months.


Then, the trend changed to the timing belt service and now back to the drive shaft.


When the owner brought ...

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Both joints were cleaned and inspected so ready for the rebuilt process.


Outboard joint being filled with the new grease.


Rollers installed in their original positions and moved onto the inboard joint.












So, something looked like this is now refurbished ...

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Although I kept trying to push out the RR alignment bolt until the end of today, I came to a conclusion that I won’t be able to achieve it with cost effective and safe method.


Also, agreed with the owner that I won’t even try to pull the lower ball joint out based on the risk management.


After long hours and all the efforts, it is very disappointing and also frustrating because Right side drive shaft inboard joint is the one already leaking ...

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While waiting for the penetrating oil to work into the seized camber bolt at the right side, worked on the Left drive shaft.


Initially, the spline at the outboard joint into the hub/knuckle was seized but managed to move it earlier this week using the hydraulic puller.




Drained the MTF and inspected the strainer at the oil pump.


Not easy to see from this photo but there were normal ...

Updated 19-02-2011 at 10:16 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (Added the photo of the RL wheel speed sensor)

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