Rear Hub / Outboard Drive Shaft Play
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 5:41 pm
Hello-
I'm swimming in "while I'm in there" items on my Sprint, as I work front to back to replace seals and dried out bits from years of sitting idle. I've decided to replace the rear donuts with the Elan Trikbits parts, as well as refresh the brakes, and have removed the drive axle, caliper, rotor, etc. to clear the space for the new parts.
My question is, now that I have the other parts removed from the hub and outboard drive shaft, there is some axial play / thrust present when I wiggle the drive shaft vs. the hub housing. Given there are a set of ball bearings holding the axle in the housing, am I correct to think that there should be ZERO axial play ? Am I due to remove the outboard axle and replace the bearings?
I'm also staring at the rear differential trying to muster the courage to just remove it and replace seals there too while I'm in here. And while I'm in here, maybe replace the differential output shafts with new HD units... and maybe outboard drive axles too... and.... SAVE ME!!!
I'm swimming in "while I'm in there" items on my Sprint, as I work front to back to replace seals and dried out bits from years of sitting idle. I've decided to replace the rear donuts with the Elan Trikbits parts, as well as refresh the brakes, and have removed the drive axle, caliper, rotor, etc. to clear the space for the new parts.
My question is, now that I have the other parts removed from the hub and outboard drive shaft, there is some axial play / thrust present when I wiggle the drive shaft vs. the hub housing. Given there are a set of ball bearings holding the axle in the housing, am I correct to think that there should be ZERO axial play ? Am I due to remove the outboard axle and replace the bearings?
I'm also staring at the rear differential trying to muster the courage to just remove it and replace seals there too while I'm in here. And while I'm in here, maybe replace the differential output shafts with new HD units... and maybe outboard drive axles too... and.... SAVE ME!!!