oGaryo
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Number 15? That be coupler shaft. Best not try straighten it out, lot of power and high rotational speed in that there bit of steel.
Since my UJs are manually lubed ones, can't comment about the sealed ones as I have no experience of changing them.
As someone said, most times difficulty is getting a needle out of place and trapping it twixt cap and trunnion end.
Done it myself loads of times when replacing HGV UJs. The way I do it is to put one cap in about half way, put in the spider, locate the spider into the cap already fitted, press the other cap into place, then press the first cap in and fit that circlips
Second set, get spider into yoke and press one cap in halfway, then the other, press the first all the way in, then press the second in, finally fitting the circlips.
This way you have room to align everything and if a needle is displaced, the spider will push the other cap back out without causing damage.
yep number 15. definitely no needle bearing sitting at the back of the cap, they were all present and in order when I removed the caps after the first one cracked... pretty much installed the way you mentioned in the first example so the cap gave before the circlip.. will give the second method a go.. However, it was notably hard to rotate the cross bearing before enough space was created to install the 2nd circlip, hence my reasoning that something is fundamentally wrong and it's not an install process issue
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