gee-money

I deceived to swap my CV cups around today but I cant work out how to re use the old cv clips.
Do you need a special tool or something or am I missing the obvious!
Can someone put me right.

Thanks

CHIPPO

I binned mine and bough some new ones on flea bay , i used tile nipping pliers to tighten them

LEEF

Squeeze the two parts shown together till the U shaped tab pops up then release. They are a good design and can be reused many times.

Joeh

Not a good design while fitting them while the shaft is still on the car lol

gee-money

Thanks leef and chippo that worked a treat but ive got one more question.....I noticed when I had bolted everything back in place I still had slight movement on both drive shafts coming from the diff end. Can you tell me if this is normal to have a small amount of play at that end or have I got more problems brewing?

Thanks again

CHIPPO

I would have to go the shed where mine are all assembled on the subframe and check, but what movement do you mean exactly ?

gee-money

If you move the drive shafts up and down when lying under the car you can feel a slight movement in the shafts and on close inspection you can see the flange that is attached to the diff end that is where its coming from.
Hope that makes sense.
Graham

CHIPPO

Off to the shed to check , back in a mo

CHIPPO

And the answer is , if your get hold of the cups there is a touch of movement , never noticed really before so i must have presumed it was normal. I did have a feel for back lash of which there is very little.

gee-money

All is normal by the sounds of it then thats a relief but thanks for checking anyways.
Cheers
Graham