Need some help with car repair.. Final Update pg.7

It must come out, it's just seized...be creative with your leverage...forget the air hammer, it just tears shit up...

That's it! That van has surely been neut-dropped, maybe several times.

PLEASE don't contribute to global warming by applying heat!

Have you tried getting some of your wife's vibrators and duct taping them to the part to loosen the grip. Maybe add some anal lube also.

Go to bill youngsters service station in NJ. Ask him about uncle mikey the "pasta" man

You need to hammer a pickle fork in there or get a proper pry bar with a striking handle and smack it out from inside/underneath. I’ve changed many a half shaft, and you have to hit those fuckers so hard you’re afraid they might break, sometimes.

AAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO PUSH IN AND TWIST (HAND FORCE ONLY) IT COMES RIGHT OUT.

I hope you did not thrash the trans

I have never heard of EVER using any sort of force on those. They slide right out of the hub with zero effort and to get them out of the trans you push and twist. Hand force only.

PUSH, TWIST, and when it turns a little, PULL.

The entire hub has to be off and dangling. I have never heard of force with this.

And by the way, I have 3,000,000 KM into 17 cars over decades and never let a mechanic touch a single one. Everybody would bring their cars to me for engine rebuilds, trans replacements, etc. Never had a CV joint EVER need force on anything.

As an experienced mechanic that has changed hundreds of CV shafts, I can confidently say that you are either lying or just inexperienced. On a new car they do slide right out of the wheel hub, sure. Things are different on an old car up north where we salt the roads all winter. The inside joint where the shaft meets the trans is different. No rust there, as it’s bathed in trans fluid. However, most are held in place with a circlip that often requires significant force to dislodge. Usually about five times the force an amateur would imagine might be required.

TORCH AND WAX

Melted crayons work for the hub joint, not the trans joint.

Ugh, we're going to have to replace our CV axle asap. We've already been driving on it for over a month now, knowing it was leaking and needing to be replaced.

My boyfriend just replaced my entire rear suspension. Had to cut off a few bolts, and use a torch on others.

Your bf is a crappy backyard mechanic.

WTF you talking about?
He has saved us hundreds of dollars.

I was referring to 2 different cars, btw.

Fuck off

Or a come along with a little hammer action at the same time. Stay clear because when it pops out, it may go flying.

^^^^ This

I had a skidder which had a splined pin in a winch get totally seized, it had to be removed to replace the brake pads in the winch.

My mechanic and I used PB Blatser and then heated it gently with a rosebud torch in a repeated succession... heat... spray... pound with a hammer, to break out the rust and corrosion.

It took two days of doing this to get it out.

We were in the woods, and could not afford to fuck up the equipment further, so had to use good old-fashioned patience and perseverance to get the dern pin out.

Also, use the power of visualization... just think of the joy you will feel when it comes out. Do not focus your energy, which we humans highly underestimate, on the problem.
Just feel the feeling of success.

That, and just keep at the thing with penetrating oil and heat... pound, heat, spray... rinse and repeat.

Good luck there, Captain, I am rootin' for ya!

Pull rhe transmission you fukin moran! That shit should come out in 2 seconds . Quit fuking working on your own shit you suck..Ok I hope you get it fixed.

Yes, we've used this method a few times with my car.
I have 310,000 miles on my car, and she's still going strong.

knowing me i would cut the shaft near the transgender then drill and tap it put a socket nut make a puller.old plumbers trick.and Never use heat near the transsexual.

here's the thing.

I'm sure someone else has given you this advice in the previous 5 pages of posts but I don't want to read this crap.

point number 1: you are driving a 10 year old minivan

Point 2: buy a new fucking car loser

Maybe,but hooking it to a speeding train or rocket might also work?

Argue-trolls still trying to drive away the commenters.

Thanks, guys! Your presence gives this site validity.

Maybe I am just good at it then.

A circlip would not be a mystery. Something is seriously amiss and I have worked in ASE garages, just never did a CV joint in one, every CV joint I ever did was in my own garage with my own tools. It is like mandela effect this thread, I have never heard of a CV joint that did not just slide out beautifully.

Am I THAT MUCH better at maintenance?

Probably at least 15 CV joints in my life, NEVER heard of this, EVER.

I think Op missed something. The spindle the CV joint goes into has to be DANGLING. If it is not, something got missed.

And if someone did not know what a C clip does, it would be doom.

There will be a large nut that has to be spun off first thing. If op did not spin that nut off (most people do not have tools that go that high) - did anyone confirm OP did at least that? It sounds to me like it is not fully disassembled and op is beating on hopelessness.

Had the same problem on a 2011 Toyota Sienna. It took me 6 hours on the passenger side. It was not stuck in transmission, it was stuck in the support fixture. Definitely use some PB blaster, the capillary action of this material will pay off. It took 6 hours because every time I applied PB blaster, I let it dwell for 15 minutes. I used an air hammer. It was exhausting, but it finally came out. Make sure you have removed the snap ring.

After it is removed, when your putting the new one in, I highly recommend that you put a high quality grease on the support fixture. Also, there are two small set pins on the fixture when you remove it from the engine block. Remove these pins and don’t reinstall them. This saved my ass the second time I had to remove the axle for replacement. It was again stuck after two years of use. Instead of and airhammer the second time, I simply unbolted the fixture, and removed the fixture from the axle on a table clamp.

yep, does sound a bit snow flaky.