Replacing outer shaft below Options

[yozef]

Hi guys. I need your help. Well last week i have noticed that my right hand outer drive shaft bellow was thorn and grease was split all over the suspension. I have ordered a set from Toyota and they arrived today.

This evening I tried to pull out the shaft to replace the below. But how do you do this. I removed the centre nut, the caliper and the disc brake. I tried pulling the hub out of the shaft with a bearing three arm pully but it seems too tight. Can you help me?

Also I need to replace the gearbox fluid. What oil specs do I go for?

Thanks for everything as always!

[Kwanza26]

Are you pulling on the hub? Typically when you replace a blown boot... you'll be pulling the axle out. To pull the axle out... you'll need to remove the tie rod and unbolt the spindle from either the strut or the lower suspension arm (wishbone)... After that, tap the axle and it should break loose from the hub... then tap it out of the tranny.

[yozef]

by tie-rod do you mean the steering linckage

[soulshadow]

If your replacing the drive axel you don't need to remove the tie rod. You just need to remove the strut from the hub assembley. Then when the Hub seems movable, just tap out the drive axel from the hub side. Get under you car, take a crow bar that is about 1-2 ft long and with a rubber hammer tap out the drive axel from the tranny. This is a quick removal. I use Castrol Transmission fluid with mine. I think it was 90W 40 or something like that I forgot.

Installing is the same as removal. You just stick the drive axel back into the tranny and then tap it in lightly. If you push it in by hand it never really works, cause the snap ring at the end of the drive axel needs a litte force to get it back in. I suggest you replace you tranny seal too if it's leaking or has gone bad.