If light-alloy wheels are used on the car, then we hang out with a jack and remove the wheel from the side of the dismantled drive.
Use the blade of a flat screwdriver to straighten the jammed belt of the hub bearing nut.
Install the wheel and fasten it with nuts.
Before installing an alloy wheel…
... push the hammer handle out of the central hole of the disk..
... a plastic plug.
We lower the car, fix it with a parking brake and substitute stops under the rear wheels.
With a "32" head with a powerful knob, loosen the hub bearing nut.
If the disk is steel, remove the cap that covers the hub bearing nut and, straightening the jammed belt, unscrew the nut. After loosening the wheel nuts, hang and remove it. We securely fix the car on a factory-made stand. Disconnect the ball joint of the front suspension arm from the steering knuckle (see Removing the lever). We remove the front wheel brake hose coupling bracket to the bracket on the shock absorber strut housing and remove the hose coupling from the bracket hole (see Replacing the front wheel brake hose). Loosen the wheel bearing nut..
... and take out the thrust washer.
We take the steering knuckle with the shock absorber strut outward and remove the splined shank of the outer hinge housing of the left wheel drive from the hub hole. We have the drive on the suspension arm.
With a tight fit of the shank of the outer hinge housing in the hub hole, we knock it out with a hammer through a soft metal drift.
If you decide not to drain the oil from the gearbox, then we substitute the container under the hole in the gearbox housing, which includes the shank of the internal drive joint.
When dismantling the left drive, we hook the shoulder of the inner hinge housing with the end of the mounting blade..
... and, leaning with a spatula on the gearbox housing, overcoming the resistance of the retaining ring, we push the shank of the hinge housing out of the splined hole of the side gear of the differential.
Supporting the body of the inner hinge, so as not to damage the drive oil seal with its splined shank, remove the drive of the left wheel.
We dismantle the right drive in the same way.
When removing the right drive inner joint shank..
... with the end of the mounting blade we hook the end of the hinge housing and rest with the blade on the head of the bolt securing the differential bearing cover.
Remove the right wheel drive.
Before installing the drive, replace the retaining ring of the inner joint shank with a new one.
Circlips must not be reused.
Carefully insert the shank of the internal hinge housing through the drive seal hole and, turning the shaft, align the splines of the shank with the splines of the side gear.
With a sharp movement of the drive towards the gearbox, we send the drive to the place. By pulling the body of the internal hinge or prying it with a mounting blade, we make sure that the shank of the body is fixed in the side gear. Further assembly is carried out in the reverse order.
If, before dismantling the drive, the gear oil was drained from the gearbox, then pour new oil into the gearbox, otherwise we check the oil level in the gearbox and bring it to normal, adding exactly the same oil.