I spent a few hours today trying to take out my front passenger side axle and nothing worked. Before I get the "just use a pry bar" answer. Let me list what I did.
I first pulled it, to snap it out. It didn't come so I pulled a little harder and the race and ball bearings snapped out leaving me with just the inner cup.
Pry bar, all sizes I tried 4" to 2' long pry bars.
Multiple pry bars, one on each end. I tried the slow pressure route and the hard snap route to no avail.
Vice grips.
I made a "L" shape out of metal so I could get the lip and hit it with a hammer.
I even took metal cable, made a noose with it, and lassoed the cup on one end, wrapped the other end around a pry bar and pulled. I had almost 500lbs of force and it didn't move at all.
I am assuming that snap clip on the end is bent to all hell and won't come out through conventional methods. I was thinking I could take the other side off(I already did, including the axle) and tap it out from the other side. I forgot about the diff. So now I was going to take the front diff. out and I realized that the axle is still connected to it from the other side so I can't just take it off. I am at a loss of what to do next. Is there any other way to remove the axle?
I first pulled it, to snap it out. It didn't come so I pulled a little harder and the race and ball bearings snapped out leaving me with just the inner cup.
Pry bar, all sizes I tried 4" to 2' long pry bars.
Multiple pry bars, one on each end. I tried the slow pressure route and the hard snap route to no avail.
Vice grips.
I made a "L" shape out of metal so I could get the lip and hit it with a hammer.
I even took metal cable, made a noose with it, and lassoed the cup on one end, wrapped the other end around a pry bar and pulled. I had almost 500lbs of force and it didn't move at all.
I am assuming that snap clip on the end is bent to all hell and won't come out through conventional methods. I was thinking I could take the other side off(I already did, including the axle) and tap it out from the other side. I forgot about the diff. So now I was going to take the front diff. out and I realized that the axle is still connected to it from the other side so I can't just take it off. I am at a loss of what to do next. Is there any other way to remove the axle?
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