| Re: Half shaft Ujoints will not come out |
Subject: Re: Half shaft Ujoints will not come out by skirlin on 2009/3/24 15:31:19 CentralCoaster wrote: None of this makes any sense to me. Just drive a wedge in behind the ujoint to pop it loose. A vise is only used for installing it. The shaft came out of the car rather easily. The problem was removing the joints from the yokes. Both sides were seized. I have replaced ujoints before and never had this problem. That is when I start asking people with more experience for suggestions. "^^Huh? He is trying to get the u-joint out of the Half Shaft yoke. Anyway OP, just get anything larger in Diameter to put under the lower part of the yoke. Then get a Socket or something shaped like that you don't care to own anymore......place it on the u-joint cap and hit it with a hammer.......hard..... It is aluminum the cap will move easily within. This was just about the easiest u-joint I ever removed in 30 years of shade treeing....." Absolutely, I did just that and it should have worked like you described, but didn't budge  . Due to the lack of progress I decided to visit my local garage. It took him just under a half hour to get the job done. He said normally it is a very simple quick job but this time the shaft did not want to let go. He was all smiles when he got done, ah Victory. It cost me $36. I am happy. When an experience mechanic with all the right tools has a hard time, I don't feel so bad  . Now I get to put it all back together  . Thanks everyone. |
