Contents: Removal ⤓ Installation ⤓
Removal
To remove the drive shaft, perform the following operations.
1. Remove the brake hose retainer, wheel speed sensor wire connector (vehicles with ABS) and anti-roll bar.
2. Using a special device to prevent the hub from turning, unscrew the drive shaft mounting nut.
Caution: When you loosen the drive shaft mounting nut, the wheel hub bearing must not be loaded with the weight of the vehicle.
Fig. 15.14. Drive shaft: a - places where the sealant is applied; 1 – split retaining ring (cars with automatic transmission); 2 – drive shaft (cars with automatic transmission); 3 – left drive shaft (cars with manual transmission); 4 – bolt (25 Nm); 5 – connection of the ball joint pin of the lower arm with the steering knuckle; 6 – drive shaft mounting nut (216–255 Nm); 7 – nut (67 Nm); 8 – steering rod end connection; 9 – nut (25 Nm); 10 – right drive shaft (cars with manual transmission); 11 – split pin
3. Unscrew the nut securing the lower arm ball joint pin to the front suspension strut. Using a puller, remove pin 5 (Fig. 15.14) of the ball joint from the steering knuckle.
4. Loosen the nut securing the ball joint pin of the tie rod end to the front suspension strut. Using a puller, remove pin 8 of the ball joint.
Fig. 15.15. Using special tools MB990241 (1) and MB990767 (2) to press the drive shaft end out of the hub
5. Using special tools, press the drive shaft end out of the hub (Fig. 15.15).
Fig. 15.16. Drive shaft of vehicles with F9Q engine: 1 – connection of the ball joint pin of the lower suspension arm with the steering knuckle; 2 – drive shaft mounting nut (218–255 Nm); 3 – nut (90 Nm); 4 – nut (29 Nm); 5 – connection of the ball joint pin of the steering rod end with the steering knuckle; 6 – left drive shaft; 7 – bearing bracket; 8 – bolt (60 Nm); 9 – intermediate shaft and right drive shaft; 10 – bolt (25 Nm); 11 – bearing bracket clamp
6. On models with the F9Q engine, disconnect the speedometer drive cable, anti-roll bar and side lower cover. Then unscrew the two bolts securing the intermediate shaft bracket clamp and remove the clamp (Fig. 15.16). If necessary, unscrew the two bolts and remove the bracket.
The drive shaft is removed as follows.
Cars with manual transmission
Remove the bolt (left), remove the split pin (right) and remove the drive shaft from the gearbox.
Cars with automatic transmission
Fig. 15.17. Using a lever to remove the drive shaft: 1 – oil seal; 2 – TJ type hinge.; 3 – mount; 4 – gearbox housing
1. To remove the drive shaft, insert a crowbar between the gearbox housing and the drive shaft (CV joint housing) (Fig. 15.17) and push the shaft out of the gearbox.
Caution! Do not pull out the drive shaft without a mount; such an operation will damage the Tripod CV joint (TJ). To avoid damaging the seal, do not insert the pry bar too deeply.
Fig. 15.18. Using special tool MB991000 (1) and MB99101 (2) for temporary fixation of the hub on the bearing
When loosening the drive shaft mounting nut, the hub bearing should not be loaded with the weight of the vehicle. However, if it is necessary to move the vehicle to another location (the bearing should be loaded with the weight of the vehicle), then temporarily tighten the nut with a special tool (Fig. 15.18).
2. Using a punch, knock out the split pin 11 (see Fig. 15.14).
3. Remove the right drive shaft 10 from the gearbox (cars with manual transmission).
4. Remove drive shaft 2 from the gearbox (vehicles with automatic transmission).
5. Remove the split retaining ring 1 from the shaft (vehicles with automatic transmission).
Attention! On vehicles with ABS, when removing and installing the drive shaft, special care must be taken to avoid damaging the rotors of the wheel speed sensors installed on the outer housings of the Birfeld (BJ) CV joints.
Installation
Installation is carried out in the reverse order of removal, taking into account the following.
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1. Install the drive shaft into the hub and into the transmission. When installing the shaft into the transmission, apply multi-purpose grease to the splines of the transmission side of the shaft and make sure that the split pin hole on the end of the drive shaft aligns with the split pin hole on the transmission shaft. If the holes are slightly out of alignment, rotate the drive shaft 180° and reconnect the drive shaft to the transmission shaft.
Caution: Due to the odd number of splines on the drive shaft, when the drive shaft is rotated 180°, the hole for the split pin will be offset by half the diameter of the hole for the pin.
2. Apply Mitsubishi genuine part MD970389 sealant to the split pin and then insert it into the drive shaft hole. After installing the pin, apply sealant to both sides of the pin holes to completely seal them.
3. On models with F9Q engine, tighten the two bracket mounting bolts. Then install the intermediate shaft and clamp and tighten the two intermediate drive shaft bracket clamp mounting bolts (see Fig. 15.16).
Fig. 15.4. Correct installation of the washer (1) under the drive shaft mounting nut
4. The washer under the drive shaft mounting nut must be installed as shown in Fig. 15.4 (with the convex side facing the nut).
5. Tighten the drive shaft mounting nut using a torque wrench.
Caution: Before final tightening of the drive shaft mounting nut, make sure that the hub bearing is not under the influence of the vehicle's gravity.
6. Install the brake hose retainer, wheel speed sensor wire connector (vehicles with ABS) and anti-roll bar.
7. Connect the speedometer drive cable, stabilizer bar and side lower cover.