Lubricating your shaft

[jojackson4]

Got the hub off mine at the moment. The grease / black treacle stinks vile - is this right? If not what do I need to use to replace it. Thanks Peter

[jojackson4]

Sorry that's the rear 1/2 shaft also do the cv nead any maintanece ?

[carsy]

Its just normal cv joint grease. It is black, and is probably stincking due to being past its best. Not a lot you can do the the cv`s other than clean them and re pack with new grease. The grease has probably been in there since day 1, so prob not a bad idea to clean it all out, inspect the cv`s and re pack. To be honest if you havent got any strange cloncking sounds from the rear end they are probably ok.

[jojackson4]

Thanks Ian

[swallet]

Peter,

I found this site really helpful when I did the CV joints on my old Chim. It is a pig of a job. It's for VW's but we appear to share the same CV joint.
http://volksweb.relitech.com/cvjoints.htm

Hardest bit was removing the circlip holding on the CV assembly - you really need a decent set of circlip pliers - watch out - mine pinged off across the garage and it took half an hour to find.