Ok, this damn axle will no pop out for the life of me....hammer, hub puller, pulling, prying, etc etc.

I'll keep working at it, hoping it will eventually pop. Any tips or ideas?

but i mushroomed the axle bolt a little bit. just a TINY bit, enough to make it not fit in the nut. Is it ok to just file it down a bit?

HELP!!!!

 

you do have your control arm loose dont ya?

if the bolt isn't mushroomed bad i dont see why filing it a hair would hurt it.

 

ya, control arm off.

 

Ok them i am assuming you are trying to get it out of the hub right? PB Blaser in there. Make sure you have everything off that you need off so you can get it out correctly.

 

If it's mushroomed and you can't get it off, take a file to it if you don't need to re-use it. Can you turn in a filed axle as a core for the lifetimers at Autozone?

 

So your saying the axle won't come out of the hub or the axle won't come out of the tranny side?

reguardless.. keep prying and hammering.. if you haft to next time go buy a damn 8lb rubber mallet so you don't haft to worry about the axle getting fucked.

goodluck.

 

This is why you use a wood block and not just hammer right on metal parts

If you file or sand the mushroom part off you should be fine, if its not bad I dont see why you cant reuse it. Its just a little part where the threads go as long as its not to them I dont see a proplem.

 

Eww no fun. Had a d-series get stuck one time. Had to literally tear the axle apart(disassemble) and then took a propane torch and heated up the axle and pounded that sucker out with a 5 pound sledge. If it's mushroomed too bad other than cutting the material that is mushroomed away or grinding it off you don't have much of a choice. Won't be reusable if you grind or cut.

Brian

 

Die grinde a chanfer on the edge at an angle. Many times you can still catch the threads.

And whoever said PB was right on the money. That **** works miracles like the hand of god.

 

heh if you try to take it back to autozone, sand it down and get it dirty again, just so that the cashier won't give u a hard time. Using an axle with a slightly filed down tip isn't going to hurt anything though.

 

I still can't get that sucker out. Broke 2 ratchets (breaker bar), 1 log, 1 block O' wood.

it wont budge, ive tried it ALL. literally. the only thing left is to go get a 8lb hammer and torch the bolt, then hammer it out.


any tips on torching it?

 

I also vouche for PB. That **** will break any joint loose given enough time. I had an old exhaust manifold with an O2 rusted in. I managed to finally get it loose after keeping PB on it for a few hours. PB =

 

good luck!!! happen to me once i had to replace the tranny.

 

took a propane torch, heated the axle bolt area. got it REAL HOT. then hammered, pryed, and pulled. it eventually gave and popped out.

now I need to get rid of the mushroom on that axle nut/bolt.

I started to file it down, should i do something else? I need to take off about 1/6 of an inch. ? what to do?? what to doooooo

 

bump.


anyone???

 

1/6th or 1/16th ?

If 1/6th of an inch I would get another axle.

 

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Is it out of the transmission or are you hammering on it while it's in there?

 

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what is he trying to get out

the axel nut or the axel off the hub or axel off the tranny


for the axel nut i used a jack to break loose the nut

 

i got everything off...

now, putting the new hubs on.....


the very end of the axle, the part that stick out on the side of the rims, is slightly mushroomed.


what to do?

 

damnit, if its slight file it until ya can get the nut back on, if its major ya are gonna need another axle

 

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I cut my stock d-series long axle in half and they accepted it as two b-series cores.

 

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Dumbasses.

 

ok im getting a new axle

lets hope they accept my old axle.....$80 aint toooo bad....

 

USE A PUNCH NEXT TIME HOMAY.
STIK DAT **** IN DA HOLE AND HIT IT.

if a lil bit of the hole is still there then use a punch and big *** hammer and keep trying if worst comes to worst. pull the whole hub out. hit the cv joint so that the (axle gets pushed in the opposite direction of taking it out) axles goes back in. get wut im saying kinda. like the mushroom part of the axle would be exposed cut it or shave it off. and then hit the axle through. dont ask how i know

 

bought new axle. problem solved.

$70 for new axle - $10 for old core = $60 for new axle.

not too bad?

oh well...at least i can finish this damn suspension now!