Category: Project – 2020 Murbella

So what it really comes down to is my fear of hitting things too hard to avoid any possibility of damage. I couldn’t remove the stub axle yesterday since I was being too kind to it. Today was a different matter. I used the rubber end of a hammer to safeguard the end and with…

I started the rather process of removing the brake drum assembly to get to the main bearing hub.   You can tell how little driving I did in 2018 and 2019 as the rear bakes have almost no dust and as still extremely clean from when I redid them 2 years ago. I remember how…

So I spent about 20 minutes decreasing the axle drive shafts and set myself on the task of removing as much surface rust as I could, as well as all remains of the prior coating. They cleaned up very well. I used my tried and true Dremel to get as much surface rust off as…

The passenger side axle is in a lot worse shape than the drive side. It required a lot more work to get the boots off but eventually it broke apart. I did a basic degrease to be able to handle all this but I’m not touching any more of the boots or the outer CV…

So I did manage to get out again this evening and got the passenger side axle removed. The condition of this axle is far worse than the driver side. The axle is far dirtier than the driver side and the bolts and washers were far more crusted into the boot housing. As with the driver…

Ran out to the garage briefly while taking a break from work.  After talking to a few guys in the FB VW AIRCOOLED tech help group and looking through a few videos I found a way to safely disassembly the inner race from the drive shafts using the vise and some blunt force with a…

So today’s work was to get the driver side axle removed. This was accomplished. However, this proved to be a bit more difficult than I expected due to one of the CVJ bolts getting a bit stripped and then, also realizing I’ll need yet another tool to remove the actual joint from the axle itself….