Help removing front diff

Can't get the drive shaft off. Need some suggestions/help!

 

It's 8 bolts lol. Pretty straight forward...

 

lefty loosey

 

Remove bolts and pit down ur purse

 

I can't get a socket seated on the four bolts that connect to the diff. I was bending my breaker bar and started to strip the bolt (used some liquid wrench well before attempting)... Ill work on it more later this week I guess just wondering if there was a trick to this.

 

swivel sockets

 

Flame wrench Chris,,try to tighten them a bit after the heat,,then reverse to back them off for removal.


Sounds like a box end wrench job(with helper pipe), until one end or the other is off. Then you should be able to position the drive shaft to get a socket with impact wobbly on there,,then clicking on your impact tool of choice on there. If it goes that far.

 

Thanks, Ill give it a try. Could use some air tools...

 

So used a 3/8" drive socket and it fit snugly over the bolt. Used a swivel adapter for the breaker and it was pretty easy after that. I was just worried as the 1/2" drive socket wasn't able to sit snug and I started stripping a bolt.

 

If you knarled those hex's up,,grab some new bolts. Those need to remain tight when you get them back on, and be trail serviceable. So don't skimp on that hardware.

Ya,,stop and select a better socket if it is a tight fit in the work area. By better I mean the inner drive hex portion. I have some old NASA metric Blue Point impacts that I just cannot seem to sweat a bit. Extra thin wall shorties that are made out of unobtanium.

 

Bolts are good. I stopped the second they showed signs of stripping and posted here.

 

Cool.

 

Be sure to mark the them prior to removal the yokes that is. It can help reduce/eliminate driveline vibration

 

All of my experience has been on rear drive shafts. so I'm not certain if this applies :

Because of the trouble with getting a socket on these things, I've always used an extra-long box-end wrench. I use a regular 'shorty' to hold the bolt head, and the extra-long to position properly and apply the torque to the nut.