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

My eyes..... Planting hundreds of pin bearing hurts.
At my age, I started having trouble looking at objects too close so not good for my eyes....

On top of this, the smell of this custard like CV grease..... I hate this and ...

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Driveshaft

Right side drive shaft off the car and cleaned the area to this level. Lots of microfibre cloth used and my fingers sore....

Despite loosing so much grease, surprisingly, the internal drive shaft parts were in good conditions. Better ...

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Driveshaft

As always, it kills my eyes when re-planting these nearly
100 pin bearings.

One down, five more to go.




Done.



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Moving on to the right side.
Heavy corrosion on the outboard joint case.
Not sure about the effect on the strength of the case.
May be next time when the drive shaft needs servicing,
best to replace it together with the roller bearing and tripod/spider
for the reason below.



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Driveshaft