Help me identify a part...please...

replacing the lower ball joint on my truck and JUST on the inside of the very back of the steering knuckle/spindle/hub---right where the CV axle ENTERS the knuckle (where the little rubber seals are) there is a circular, round, tightly wrapped spring like thing...mine is chewed up pretty bad and I want to replace it but I'm not sure what it is and cant find it on the XterraParts.com breakdown on its site and how it needs to be installed...Anyone?

Got a pic?

xterraparts.com beta website has nice exploded diagrams.
Try this http://www.courtesyparts.com/betasite/index.php?cPath=532_14_69_82

Edit: Oops, just reread your original post and see you alread went to xterraparts.com, sorry.

Richard

Are you just talking about the band that holds the boot on?

Nope...Brent over on NOR identified it for me....

"Most likely the seal on the back of the knuckle, they use a spring to hold tension and it has come out.
40227-20N00 It's 40533 in the Xterraparts.com diagram."

picking up what I believe to be the Napa equivelant today and have the actual Nissan part on order just in case....cheap little seal and its all chewed up on my truck...

Hmm, I have to (Eventually...) install a halfshaft and re-build the hub assembly (That fell in the mud after removal from the X during dissembly of the LCA......

I don't even remember seeing a spring....probaly still in the mud somewhere....

:rolleyes:

TJ-

It should still be on the inside of the hub. I remember seeing it.

Stone