[T3] CV concave washer

[Jim Adney]

On 1 Sep 2011 at 18:41, Bryon Garvin wrote:

> > If you're asking about axial motion (not flex) then I would expect it
> > to move equally in both directions. Either way, it should move until
> > the center race comes to rest against the ball retainer.

> Well, I thought the same.  There's no grease in there yet, so maybe it
> doesn't want to travel there easily.  However, it's reassembled EXACTLY as
> taken apart except that the inner race appears to be 120 degrees opposed to
> its original position (I made a mark aligning the two, but in reassembly I
> botched it).  But the races are facing the right way, the balls are from
> that same joint.  The only thing I might have messed up is turning the cage
> around but I think folks here agreed that shouldn't matter.

Can you see that the axial motion is being stopped by the center race 
running against the ball retainer?

> If I assembled it incorrectly, it wouldn't move at all, right?

That's what I would expect.

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