 Let me show you what this bad boy can do. Hey guys, welcome back to Titanium Man Garage and please feel free to subscribe, I've got plenty of Polaris repairs and hit the like if you like this video. So I've been AWOL for the past month, I had a couple different projects going on. Today's video is going to be on doing the front axles on this, I believe it's a 2002 sportsman. My customer was complaining that it seems to pull a little to the right as he's driving it. I guess it's got to be the Hillard clutch. He bought a new set of axles for it, thinking there was something with that. So like I said, the customer was complaining that I believe it was the right wheel, was dragging and it kind of felt like it was pulling to the right. So I got it jacked up off the ground and this is tight, loose, check for end play, he's got a lot of work, tire rods are shot. So I'm going to start by taking this wheel off and seeing what's going on here. I'm going to try one more thing, joint here is sloppy. So yeah this thing's, so I might have to lift the back end up off the ground just to get it turned, see what I can get it to do. Alright so I lifted the back end up and thought maybe the rear axle would spin when it was in front. You don't have to turn. So I'm going to take this wheel off, probably take this hub off and see what's going on. I see the U joints in the front axle are shot. I have a customer bought a brand new set of axles, so we're going to take this off. Take the first, I do have jack stands underneath here. Combination of things going on. So the brake caliper, there's no pads, just tight. When I twist this, that U joint is shot. So I'm going to take that off, take that off, hopefully the hillard clutch is good. Go through the brakes, see what's going on there. Alright so here's the customer, we have to strip these out. So I'm going to have to try to make this work. Hopefully we're not damaging the tool. Just to resolve any of that, I'm going to take the brake pad. I'm going to take the caliper off, make sure that's not hanging up. Ha! Look at that. The hall effect sensor is broken off, means the speedometer doesn't work. I do have new brake pads, so that'll be something I'll put on. Still tight. That's not a good sign. Lots of dirt in there. Oh wow, there's chunks in there. Chunks of metal. Holy shit. The bearing, if you get in there and see that, is completely mashed. Usually the first sign of an issue is when you don't see any hub fluid coming off. So usually you want to put ATF in there where a player makes a brand. You got to keep that lubed up. A lot of guys forget that. You should change that fluid every season, because you don't. This is what will happen. But I'm guessing between the U-joint and the hub fluid, probably a combination of both. That's what might erect it. I don't know if I'm going to get that off of there. Might have to use the persuader. You can see that. The bearing is stuck in there. Look at that. Nothing left of that. Ball bearings are falling out. Wow. I might have to throw a different hub on here. Lots of metal shavings in there. Hey, I can get away with cleaning it up. Just happened to have a bucket of old gas from the boat. I'm going to let it soak in there and see if that cleans it up. It's coming right out. That is junk. You can see that. Hope the Hellard clutch is good. I'm going to clean that off. It's a little dirty, but she looks good. I think we can save it. Both sides are good. The plate looks still usable. I'm going to clean that off. So now we know what we're dealing with. I'm going to take the... I'll take the tie rod off. And the lower control arm nut. And we'll pull this out and get that axle out of there. Oddly enough, I just happened to replace the seven tie rods. So I already know what sockets they take. Now I'm removing the cotter pin. 17 millimeter. And I believe the top is 15. 15 on the top. 17 on the bottom. I like to try to keep it running together if I can. Same thing on the bottom. Got a pin out. And this is loose. I think that was a 9.6. So I want to hang up that brake caliper. Get it out of the way. Doesn't get wrecked. You have that ball joint fork. You can jam that in between there. I don't happen to have one. I got to use a hammer. And a screwdriver. Sometimes they just pop right in. The boot's ripped. It came right off. So I'm going to pop up the air compressor. Pop that pin out of the end of the drive shaft here. So I got the back up in here again. And I need to move that pin so I can access it from this side. This is not going to be easy to see but there is a pin that goes through the differential shaft and into the axle shaft. And I'm going to pop that out. So I got it started. These metal extensions. This is the rest of the way through. All pin removed. I just pushed her straight down. Sometimes you have to use your head. So like I said I just ground on a bolt. Put a half inch socket on there. And down. She went and I should be able to pull it out. And that's where that pin goes. Wow this is a nice kit the customer bought. I probably shouldn't name drop but there you go. Comes with the shaft. Comes with all the bearings. It even comes with the seals. Which is pretty freaking awesome. I don't know what he paid for this but everything comes included. The nut. Even the cotter pin comes with it. That's pretty cool. I'm going to go ahead and clean everything up and get this all put back together. I'm going to go ahead and grease up that shaft. That will make that new axle shaft slide on better. And then I'm also going to move up the inside here. Alright so my plan is I'm going to insert this end of the shaft into here first. And then slide that all together. I do have the old bearing back in. It does seem to be in good shape. The next thing to be do is line up the holes. Pop that cotter pin back in. Sometimes they don't want to go back in because the edges are kind of matched. So we're going to see how this goes. And I get lucky. Now I don't have to sand it. I like to start it by hand. If I can. So I know it's going in the right spot. I can use the air hammer to pull the rest of it in. So I got the shaft in. And the magnetic coil does not work. So I'm going to show you a little trick. I know this is going to be hard to see because the light is going to be shining right in your eyes. I'll take a straight edge and go straight across the inner, sorry, the inner and the outer circle of the magnetic coil. The inner is permanent. The outer moves in and out. And there was some damage because of the bearing and the hub was probably rubbing on here. I'm thinking it pushed that outer sleeve out. So the trick is, probably got a better straight edge than this, but I'll throw this over here and look through the light. Yeah, in the camera you're not going to see that. But the idea is to have the light behind you so you can see if the outer ring is showing light. And you can't see it in the camera, but I see the light in the inner ring. So that's telling me that this outer ring, I'm going to get you out of here later, this outer ring is too far out. So I'll try to show you what I'm doing. So this is just an old, I don't know, it was an old tool for an air gun, but this works pretty good. So what I've been doing is I've been tapping on the outside and then I'll shine the light through here. And it's actually getting closer. You can take a feeler gauge too. The minimum is .001. I usually just try to get it flush. Oh, that's good. That is really close. You also want to make sure this ring is completely flat or that's not going to work either. Is there any imperfections in it? It might not stick. All right, so I got my bearings greased. I'm going to throw that hub on, tighten everything up. That's to do it. Make sure I fill this back up with hub fluid. All right, guys, my battery died on the camera, sorry if part's cut off, but got her all back together. Remember when I first started, this would not move at all. It spins beautifully now, doesn't wobble. Put the new set of brake pads on because those are shot and she should be good to go. I'll see you on the other side next. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching and, like always, till next time.