Ok I just got a GSR tranny for my LS. When my friend took my drivers side axle out, he pulled on it before realizing that the mount where it meets the halfshaft was still attached to the block...which pulled the axle out of the inner cv (the joint is called a tulip joint I believe. I couldn't get it back in by turning and pushing, so I took the boot off....the axle has 3 bearings on it, flat on one side and round on the other, and the housing has 3 indentations for each of them....I have lined them all up and tried beating it in, and can't get it to go....anyone???


Just to make sure, when you put the bearings on the pegs at the end of the axle (where it goes in the inner cv), the flat side of the bearing goes down on the shaft correct...and the round side facing the outside wall of the cv?

 

need help as quickly as possible thanks in advance

 

I had a similar problem as you. I ended up putting the bearings on the wrong way on the core and actually did manage to get them into the housing with a good belt of a hammer.
I knew I was after doing wrong when I got very little rotational movement on the drive shaft. Stupid me,(never work on a car after being drinking heavy the night before.)
So I took the whole shaft and the housing out with it, when I took out the bearings I had broken a ridge of the flat side of the bearing, so I put them in the right way into the housing, (they slipped in without any problems), tied the boot down and then just put the shaft back in.
I think it is important to remember where each bearing came out of the housing and replace each one into the same track.
However I got them mixed up and put them back in wherever, lols.
No problems since, even with the bearings in the wrong way and one of them damaged. I will replace them some time soon just for piece of mind.

Does anyone know the Part Number and some dealer who sells these bearings?

 

just buy a new axle , like autozone, pepboys ones , then return the one you have and say its that one , you have like a lifetime warenty with them. . .