So, we are trying to separate the driver's side driveshaft from the intermediate shaft on my Integra. Basically, we tried everything. Prybar and hammer, two friends prying simultaneously, prybar and sledgehammer... anyway three hours later I was extremely pissed off. As a last resort I quick-clamped one side of the shaft ending to the upright and clamped it as hard as I could (the upright was positioned so the driveshaft had some room to slide out) and went at it with a prybar. With the clearance I had there weren't many options for angles of attack and, predictably, I was soon on my way to the emergency room with a large gash above my left eyebrow 7 Stitches later the driveshaft is still there

So if anyone has advice for removing this thing, I would really, really appreciate it right now.

Cliff Notes: Angry Joe gets angry, impales himself with a crobar, driveshaft still won't come out


[Modified by Angry Joe, 12:57 PM 9/18/2002]

 

I would try dropping the intermediate shaft with the driveshaft still attached. Then you will at least have more room to work with the axle and intermediate on the ground. HTH, sorry to hear you were injured.

 

that is the only way i have gotten them separated, pull them out and clamp the drive shaft in a vice with the inerdimate shaft hanging below and with a few nice blows with a hammer they should separate

look at it this way, you will at least have a good story for the scar

 

Yeah, you can now use that great line, "you ought to see the other guy!"

 

I took the driveshaft and intermediate shaft out together. I didn't think I would have enough room, but live and learn

Since I'm doing this to drop the transmission I don't need to separate them. Now if I could only get the outside end separated from the hub...

 

If you're just removeing the tranny, why do you need to seperate the axle from the hub? Just hold it out of the way with some coathanger.

7 stiches huh? Were you able to talk them into some good pain killers? Those head wounds tend to throb a bit.

 

I don't need to take them off, but it would be more convenient to have them out of the way.

They used a local anesthetic, which didn't even take all the way so no good drugs for me

 

this is easy, take about 2 6" 3/8ths extensions and rest against the housing of the intermediate shaft with the end hittin the back of the inner CV joint, then pop it a couple times with a mini sledge (wife beater). pops out after a couple hits.

 

Speaking of head injuries. I did something really stupid once. I had an 86 prelude and I was getting in the car, it was very windy. Keep in mind these preludes have very pointy door frame corners. Half stride into the seat, the wind blew the door halfway shut and my eye socket slammed into the pointy edge. That REALLY REALLY hurt. It opened up and started bleeding profusely. I was an idiot but noone knew because I was leaving. So now I have a small scar there, but it really looks like a wrinkle near my eye. So now I look even older than what I should, haha.

 

my own personal trick to removing the driver side axle.

tools you will need:
a rather large adjustable wrench
large ball pein, or 4lb sledge

you will open the wrench up enough to go around the shaft itself, then you place the wrench in between the mounting bracket of the intermediate shaft and the outer hub of that end of the axle. then take the hammer and KNOCK THE **** OUT OF IT.... be sure to hit it so that you are using it as kind of a cross between a ball joint seperator and a prybar. some people keep saying i could tear somthing up that way, but so far, it has alwyas worked for me. it's actually something my dad thought of, and he always says "if it won't come apart, hit it harder" (this coming form someone who has worked on big trucks, from R/C cars, to lawnmowers to race cars to.....)

 

i know this sounds in-humane, but u got any pics?

glad ur okay tho

 

Sorry, I had my digi-cam for less than one day at the beginning of the month before it was stolen

Picture the forked end hitting me above my left eyebrow (good thing it wasn't below!)

 

DID you at least Cry, that way you can brag on the Blood Sweat and Tears shead makin it a killer ride.

 

No, I'll be in tears after I put it back together, start it up, put it in first and the car starts moving backwards

 

WTF.... if that happens, if i were you, i'd drive the damn thing off a cliff and say it got stolen and wrecked

 

yeah, you've gotta be careful with things like that.

I usually take the whole unit off, that use a 4lb mallet after spraying and tap around shaft. Prying does not work. With the tough ones I heat up with propane torch then bang again.

greg

 

I wasn't being serious about that, of course with my luck this week... I've defied the laws of physics before

 

I don't know anything about driveshafts - but I hope your eyebrow feels better.

///Alex

 

Update: Transmission out!

Won't make the autox at Nazareth this sunday though

 

i've got a large screw drive that helps the prying, i was working on Boosted97Ludes integra (my old car, we were pulling the enigne on it the first day he got it) and when i was trying to pull the CV out the damn thing just pulled in half, main shaft out of the joint and all.