Today another package arrived from the US (the earlier mentioned CV driveshaft replacement part I managed to buy on yet another auction) therefore it looks I'll have a bussy weekend trying to rebuild and install the front driveshaft. I already managed to get the old ball off the driveshaft, although it was not an easy task. It would come off half way and then would get stuck - you can't see it, but it has a needle bearing inside, where these needles run on a shaft protruding at the end of the driveshaft and when I tried to pull the ball off, the needles inside would reorient at such an angle that they wedged between the inner runway and shaft making removal impossible. So what to do in such a situation? ... HEAT - as you might remember from physics when you heat something up, it expands. Unfortunatelly I didn't have a blowtorch or anything similar handy...but a grinder worked just as well. Pressing hard against the running grinder the ball heated up from the friction, turning all those 'nice colors' and simply fell off.
