axle woes. help mah!
 

aw ---- ---- me in the goat ass.

So I decided after work to replace my axles. Passenger one only took about 2 hours to remove because the ------- LCA bolt rust-seized to the bushing, so a lot of prying, grinding and sawzalling took place. Needless to say the LCA is now fucked but I digress...

The driver side axle is T-totally---------stuck in the transmission. The first "pop" went fine and completely normal, but it wont ------- budge. I can put it back IN the transmission, no problem but it just wont come out. I've tried pulling it, wedging everything from a long pry bar to a 1/2" breaker bar in there and kicking it with both feet. I've basically tried everything short of having sexual intercourse with it.

I have heard and read that you can take a peek in the other side of the transmission and see what's going on but there is some cylindrical piece of metal in there blocking my view, making it impossible to stick any tools in there, assuming the clip is getting hung up or something.

Is there ANY way I can remove this axle? If all else fails, I guess I could rebuild it on the car but thats gay.

It's a d-series transmission. not sure what it is to be honest. Im guessing it's an EF DX but I'm not sure. It's cable.

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

so its totally unhooked on the other side? (out of the hub?) and it still wont come out

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

you are correct sir. This thing is S T U C K. This is actually the second time i've attempted removing it too.

I think im gonna end up rebuilding it on the car.

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

can you even do that? It must be hung up on somthing, once that little clip pops out from inside the transmition it should slide out, how far can you get it out?? Thats the most fucked up thing i've heard, maybe i've just been lucky with axles or I just have a magic axle toutch, but I've never had a hard time taking one out.

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

what kind car is it mang

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

lots of lube


person on the top with a flat head

you on the bottom


beating it with a flat head


it will come. I have yet to run into of these stuck axles

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

It's a 90 hatch with I think the stock DX tranny. I will try the screwdriver thing again but my hopes for that working are pretty low.

I'm not the most experienced mechanic but I've done axle removals/installs at least 10 times. Never had anything like this happen. ???

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

Have someone grab the end and rotate it while you prybar it. Ran into this on a d15b recently... the rotation while prying was the only thing that did the trick, after like 10 minutes.

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

wd-40 the bitch too

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

try a pickel fork worked for me

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

had something like that happen to me... axle was stuck in the half-shaft.. tried everything, i meen everything.. like unbolting the half-shaft and axle, taking it to local firestation were my buddy worked, and trying to sepperate it with the jaws of life. and it still would not budge, ------- thing was cracking the metal housing around the halfshaft.. ---- can rip a door off in the matter of seconds, but couldnt seperate an axle :(

sometimes ---- just wont come off.

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

you ever thought of becoming a motivational speaker? lol


I might give that rotating and prying thing a try but im not gonna get my hopes up.

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

haha didnt meen to give you no hope at all lol

but if its comming out and going back in it should come out. that metal ring thingy they put on there is probly just getting in the way.. one good pop from the top and bottom should do the trick.

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just don't ruin the case......and you can.....

H22 JDM LSD, person tried to drive the axle out from the other side.....the clip was so fucked up he ended up "driving the diff. out" the other side. Cracked around the bearing race/axle seal area.

Note the diff ONLY fits a JDM LSD case, try finding a spare!

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

Eh I said ---- it and swapped the outboard joint with one from another axle. Wasnt as hard as I thought, so that's done, now i gotta fix the other side. Hope to be back on the road tomorrow by lunch :6

Re: axle woes. help mah!
 

It's all gravy now ;D