pulling the 5s, tips from veterans... Options

[nightryder]

I have everything disconnected, I was hoping to pull the engine tonght, but I can get the damn drivers side axle out.



I have all the bolts out and its disconnected from the hub, I just cant get it out of the tranny!



any tips from those of you that have done it before?

[jcbass7]

oh boy the fun of removing an axle... what i actually had to do one time.. was remove the engine with the axle attatched as well as the hub.. but thats a different story


usually you get a pry bar up behind the axle and carefully apply pressure while someone carefully and furmly pulls straight out on the axle



This post has been edited by jcbass7: Nov 19, 2007 - 8:16 PM

[bccentaur3]

I've done this like 4 times. Reach all the way in there with 2 hands on the axle and pull and pull and pull. wiggle a little too. It seems to work. Or you can go get the axle puller tool. Not work it imo. Just be patient it will just pop out.

[jcbass7]

it really is a pain in the.... its probably my least favorite part of doing an engine swap, removal etc.

[urbandork]

having pulled that axle 4 times i know exactly what to do.....

the axle is held in by a snap ring thing at the end of the splined section which goes into the diff. this is what makes it hard to come out.

in order to get it out and in toyota has put two notches on the large metal mass where the cv joint is. All that needs to be done is for someone to take a hammer and something "like" a screwdriver or end of a pry bar and put it on one of the notches (inner or outer one depending on if ur putting it in or pulling it out) and wack it with good force. Remember its on the inner cv joint area and the notches are on three sides so it helps to rotate the tire/axle so that one of the sides is facing a desirable direction.

if u do not have these notches then theres a good chance the axle was changed.

[Chanh55]

^ that's exactly what I did to get mine out.

[808celica]

you should drained my tranny first cuz the gear oil or ATF depending on your ttranny.........i took a bath in ATF when we pryed out the drivers side trans-axle.......nice pink stinky fluid shower..................

but the only thing is I HAVE A MANUAL TRANNY!!!

the stupid owner before me prolly put ATF in instead of gear oil........

changed the fluids yesterday to Royal Purple SynchroMax........$10 a bottle very expensive!!!

IMO i would recommend draining your tranny.

This post has been edited by 808celica: Nov 21, 2007 - 4:28 AM