Install Propeller Shaft Assembly; Installing Journal To Yoke; Installing Snap Ring Retainer - Pontiac Grand Prix Service Manual

PROPELLER SHAFT 4C -3
1. Install one bearing one-quarter way in one side of
splined yoke, using soft-faced hammer. Check for
proper alignment.
2. Insert journal into splined yoke so that arm of
journal seats in bearing and complete installation of
bearing (Fig. 4C-6).
3. Install opposite bearing, ensuring that bearing
rollers do not iam on journal. Check for free move-
ment of journal in bearings.
4. Install snap ring retainer in each journal with gaps
toward splined yoke (Fig. 4C-7).
5. Install bearings and splined yoke to front fmed yoke
of ~ r o ~ e l l e r shaft in a similar manner and install two
snLp i n g retainers with gaps toward fixed yoke.
B. Differential End
1. Install one bearing one-quarter way in one side of
propeller shaft rear yoke, using soft-faced hammer.
Check for proper alignment.
2. Insert journal into rear yoke so that arm of journal
seats in bearing and complete installation of bearing
(Fig. 4C-6).
3. Install opposite bearing, ensuring that roller bear-
ings do not jam on journal. Check for free movement
of journal in bearings.
4. Install snap ring retainer in each journal with gaps
toward rear fuced yoke (Fig. 4C-7).
5. Install two remaining trunnion bearings onto
journal arms, using suitable rubber band or tape to
hold bearings to journal.
'INSTALL PROPELLER SHAFT ASSEMBLY
1. Inspect outer diameter of splined yoke to ensure that
it is not burred, as this will damage transmission seal.
2. Apply engine oil to inside spline and outside
diameter of yoke and slide propeller shaft splined yoke
onto transmission output shaft.
Fig. 4C-6 Installing Journal to Yoke
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flange, making sure trunnion bearings are properly
aligned in companion flange yoke.
NOTE: Be sure to align mark on coqanion flange with
mark on propeller shaft rear yoke.
4.
Install U-bolts, lockplaes (or lockwashers), nuts.and
tighten U-bolt nuts to 12 lb. ft. torque (If lockwashers
are used, tighten nuts to 14 lb. ft. torque).
3. Position rear universal joint to rear axle companion
Fig. 4C-7 Installing Snap Ring Retainer
TORQUE SPECIFICATIONS
LB. FT.
U-Bolt Nuts.
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.I2 (with lockplates)
14 (with lockwashers)