How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

So I finally managed to get the king pin bearings installed after a few hrs of frustration. I realized I had done some minor damage to the ball socket when removing them in the press. The hole for the 928 bearing outer edge had been squished ever so slightly. This kept causing the bearings to go in and then grab on one side. I fixed it up using a sanding drum in my dremel going very slowly until the bearings press fit in.

With the time I had today I did get the left side CV joint back together and mounted in the inner and outer knuckle. The pivot pins went in fine

Two questions that did come up due to not taking enough pictures.

In my first picture you can see the splined shaft, then the grease slinger and then the bearing cone. Should the raised lip on the grease slinger be facing the bearing? If the lip is towards the CV joint the slinger doesn’t sit flush. The second question is about the bearing and it’s fit on the splined shaft. It sits loose on the shaft with a considerable gap. Is that gap supposed to be there? It does match up with wear marks on the slinger