Cobalt L4-2.2L (2008)
14. Position the large seal retaining clamp around the joint seal.
15. Place the new retaining ring onto the shaft.
16. While supporting the tripot assembly, place the wheel drive shaft assembly onto the arbor press with the CV assembly under the press head.
17. Lower the arbor press head onto the CV joint assembly until the press cannot move any further. This ensures that the retaining ring engages in the
inner race. Do not exceed 1 779 N (4,000 lb) press load during assembly.
18. Remove the wheel drive shaft assembly from the arbor press.
19. Measure the distance between the reference mark on the shaft (B) and the face of the CV joint inner race (1).
20. Compare the mark with the measurement made before disassembly.
21. Repeat the previous 4 steps if the current measurement does not match the measurement made before disassembly.
22. Place the new swage ring (2) onto the small end of the joint boot (1). Slide the boot (1) and the swage ring (2) onto the half shaft bar.
23. Position the small end of the boot (1) into the boot groove (3) on the half shaft bar.
