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hey guys, couldnt get this drive shaft out apon removing engine, so just ripped the engine out and bent the top of the drive shaft spline :) now its time to put the new one back in, and we cant get the f**king shaft out still. What is the easiest way about getting the shaft out?? this is really pissing me off.

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in more detail. the spline and CV casing (one peice) i have off, it simply pulls out after you losen the clamp on the rubber boot. but the rest of the shaft that goes back into the disc, i cant get out, and i need it out so i can clean the cv properly, regrease it and put the spline and casing back in. Its hard to make myself sound any sense. ill take a photo

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If it is held in with the circlip, the same as a CV is held on generally you pry it a little then push it back in and try again just to make sure the circlip doesnt get jammed in there and makes it near impossible to remove. Sometimes if you just try hammer a CV off and the circlip gets jammed and bent a little they have to cut the cv off the shaft.

If it is held in with the circlip, the same as a CV is held on generally you pry it a little then push it back in and try again just to make sure the circlip doesnt get jammed in there and makes it near impossible to remove. Sometimes if you just try hammer a CV off and the circlip gets jammed and bent a little they have to cut the cv off the shaft.

thats whats happened. which is why i am trying alternative ways to remove it. We have tried removing the hub but even with the break applied hard as possible, when applying force on the hub nut with my breaker bar, the rotor is spinning through the break pads. Going to have to remove the lot now by the looks of things, control arm, steering etc. to pull the shaft far enough back to slip the spline into the diff again. s**t f**k poo

Bozz asked the same question, probably only a week ago. You need to punch the shaft out, using a "screwdriver" into the machined lip of the CV housing.

Why did you not ask BEFORE you lifted the engine out?

Bozz asked the same question, probably only a week ago. You need to punch the shaft out, using a "screwdriver" into the machined lip of the CV housing.

Why did you not ask BEFORE you lifted the engine out?

haha, i did. i actually spoke to you personally in a few PM's about it ages ago.

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here is a pic of the situation :D

see i have the spline off, cleaned and ready to get greased, go back on the cv, be sealed up by the boot, and inserted into the diff. But that wont happen until i get the shaft out so i can get room to join it up. here is where my plan of attack is at the rear of the disk.

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So, it's not stuck in the diff, it's stuck in the hub? Then take the little cap off the outside, remove the split pin, undo the nut, pop out the shaft.

You only needed to punch the shaft out of the diff, then the engine comes out. That way the CV joint stays in 1 piece.

I didn't give a nut-by-nut description - some things become obvious.

if there is a way of getting the spline back in the diff while still attatched to the shaft, then id rather try that. but at the moment, we cant get it to pull back far enough to slide the spline back in the diff. So im going to attack it from the hub tomorrow. its just the hub bolt is so tight on mine that even with the brake fully depressed we can still spin the disc while trying to undo the nut with a torque bar

From memory, you need to disconnect the lower hub balljoint, and disconnect the swaybar link pin. This will enable you to swing the hub assembly out far enough to insert an assembled drive shaft.

As with anything to do with working on a Skyline, "if something is in the way, remove it".

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