Halfshaft issue

Screw-Rice said:
Had my neighbor shove on the halfshaft and there is zero play. It's essentially fused to the damn center pin. They guy who did my gears will be over tomorrow, so I will update afterwards with what we find.

So much for my easy hub swap/brake upgrade. So far I am a few hundred bucks shy of what I spent for the damn car! :lol:
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Did you press inwards on the inner halfshaft stub or just from the wheel? I should have said do it from the inner stub as the shaft will just slide in itself if not, sorry.
 
He pushed from the hub. Dawned on me after that I should have had him push it from the center. It was late, and didn't want to drag him in to the garage again.

The guy who did the gears will be over tomorrow, today was a bad day for both us, so the car got back burner'd until tomorrow afternoon. After looking again, there is a clip in there. Said it was a thin piece that helps guide it into the gears.

Installer says it is common, and it should compress when putting a little pressure on the shaft. Explained these cars don't require them and it was not needed. That and explained nothing from a small flathead, all the way to a 3' prybar could budge the damn thing. :lol:

Tried popping the clip out a few times to no avail. Figured screw it, he put it in there, he can take it out tomorrow. :lol:

Edit: Dumb question:
The CV boot, is just that, a boot, yes? In other words can I cut the boot in half, instead of taking a cutoff wheel to the solid section? The boot is already torn from this endeavor, and trashed. Want to atleast separate the outer half with the knuckle and get the new hubs pressed in tomorrow morning. Will allow me to finish everything Sunday after work, if I can get the knuckles done tomorrow.
 
Yes, but I dont know who sells replacement boots as I never looked for one. There is a certain amount of grease that needs to go back in as well once it's apart/cleaned out. I posted it somewhere, not sure if it was here or another forum. I'd have to dig out my manuals to get the amount now (some boot kits come with a pack of grease to use.)
Also unless you get a split boot kit to replace it, your going to need to disassemble the tri-lobe from the end of the shaft to get the new boot on, but I don't know what's available for our cars as I mentioned...
 
Not worried about replacing the boot. Have a whole new halfshaft that will be going in.

Guy who did my gears came by and checked it out. The clip on the end of the shaft that comes on them, expanded just enough to prevent it from compressing to pull out the CV.

Going to heat it up a bit and try to pull it off with a dentist pick. Didn't have anything around the garage that could get in there and pop it off.

On the plus side, he is going to press out my old hubs, and press in my new ones for free. Everyone around town wanted $40/ea.
 
You should be set then. Sounds like your guy has you covered for the trouble of getting it apart, nice to see :)
 
Now it's just a matter of getting the damn clip out, and then I can put everything back together.

The guy who did the install is a stand up guy. Which is very rare these days. Not many would drive 30 minutes to check out, and diagnose something a year after install. Then do my hubs for free for the hassle.

Going to go back at it tomorrow (taking tonight off, tired of smelling like gear oil :lol:), and hopefully have the car done by Monday/Tuesday.
 
Success!

Finally got back to the car tonight. After 2 hours and the use of a pick set, and a flathead. This was my entire issue, and set my hub swap back an entire week.
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Also had the help of a lot of beer. :lol: Will be getting my hubs pressed tomorrow and hopefully finishing my hub swap, and brake upgrade by tomorrow night.
 
Glad you got it. :) Didnt you try getting the hub off the other day or did you give up on the cutting the boot thing?
 
Icarus said:
Glad you got it. :) Didnt you try getting the hub off the other day or did you give up on the cutting the boot thing?
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The hub would not come off, and I killed a 5 ton puller trying to get it off. Was going to cut the boot off, but still left me with the issue of getting the halfshaft out.

If I was unsuccessful tonight, I was going to cut the boot, and drop the diff and have my gear installer get the clip out. Really didn't want to deal with the time delays that would have occured as a result.

Also found a IRS diff local with new 3.55's, and trak-lok that I thought about buying. Kind of tired of my 4.10's, but want to see how they act, with my bigger wheels/tires.
 
Frogman said:
Wait... you were outsmarted by a "C" clip?

Oh, I can't wait to tell the servers at the EB about this one. :lol:
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Quiet you!

Somehow the damn thing expanded just enough to prevent the CV from popping out of the diff. Had to dump the gear oil, and drop a spider gear just to gain enough room to get it out.

Feel free to tell the girls at EB. Would rather be the guy who is dumber than a "C" clip, than to be known as the guy who has the girly truck. ;)
 
Frogman said:
LMAO!

True that. But still... I'm putting a "C" clip in my pick-up truck's overhead console so I can show and tell them.

And for the record, to anyone who's wondering... no, it was not I with the girly truck.
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I will gladly bring the offending clip with me for you to display as you wish. :lol:
 
reminds me of doing a bearing stack on a General electric J-79 -10 used a deep fryer as from kitchen to heat the bearing then stuff newspaper down the compressor shaft and shoot a co2 extinguisher in the shaft to shrink it. then take it out to highpower and run it. Put in an F-4 and send it off the ship. hi ho hi ho.
 
JDS353 said:
reminds me of doing a bearing stack on a General electric J-79 -10 used a deep fryer as from kitchen to heat the bearing then stuff newspaper down the compressor shaft and shoot a co2 extinguisher in the shaft to shrink it. then take it out to highpower and run it. Put in an F-4 and send it off the ship. hi ho hi ho.
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:lol: Now that is problem solving!
 
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