Need HELP with extended axles

Any tricks to remove outer from shaft to replace with extended shafts?

Need HELP!

 

Thanks for the reply! I've tried that and it's not popping off. Driving me crazy!

 

Pm'd you. Just got done with mine with having the same problem you have.

 

Crazy trick that works sometimes, put the axle in a tube slightly larger diameter as the axle shaft and a good length and drop it straight down from a roof, the force will act as a slide hammer and pop the clip loose, you may get lucky, at our shop if it doesn't work a first few times we take it to an axle rebuilder and have them deal with it.

 

sorry for reviving this thread a bit.

I haven't done too much research on the extended axle replacement but I was thinking...would it be easier to buy a new pair of CV's, disassemble that and reassemble the ends with the new extended axles on a bench and then work on installation of the LT Kit?

I figured it would cut down on the downtime of the truck and you'd essentially be swapping the entire CV which isn't too hard of a job once the extended axle is all assembled. (Sorry if that didn't make sense)

Can someone advise if I'm way off on this thought process?

 

problem is to get the stock shaft out of the outer cv it needs to be cut and the stub needs to be pressed out. when i did mine i had to take it to a machine shop and they used about 50 tons of a 100ton press to get it out. sounded like a bomb going off. no way i was going to be able to do it at home. mine were new shafts so maybe they were tighter than used ones.

 

Most people do it with out the press. The only cv's I've damaged taking the stock axles out, were damaged in a press. The pipe trick seems to work great without putting the stress on everything.

 

I'm not sure who sells cv's but if it has the rest of the stubs then I doubt see why it wouldn't work

 

ive seen people do it with a pipe. maybe my friend and i were the unlucky ones. we did 5 shafts and all of them needed a press. and a press bigger than 50 ton. so ours were really in there i guess.

 

You have to hit the pipe on very thick steel plate. If you hit it on concrete or wood ect. It takes the shock load out of the cv joint. It has never worked for me unless I am hitting the pipe on my welding table or an arbor plate.

 

All cv's will need a huge press if you go that route because you're shearing the c clip. With the pipe method you're breaking it loose with no damage to the c-clip

 

This is one way how we remove the outer CV joint...

 

Did my LT install over Easter weekend. Hardest part was definitely disassembling the OEM CV shafts. Tried the pipe method for a few hours to no avail. Ended up taking an acetylene torch to cut it off and pressed the stub out of the birfield star. Took 2500psi of pressure to pop the clip. The clip ended up shearing through the splines of the axle shaft so it looked like a ring gear when cleaning it up. But glad to say, it's done for now.

 

NOW THAT...sounds like fun. Nothing wrong with a little demo in your life.

 

This is by far the easiest way. I'm a tech for honda but iv done acouple of toyotas axles, and just hitting the outboard cv joint just like the picture on a vice... Comes out like butter. I used a dead blow hammer I think it's a 40oz dead blow snap on. And used another dead blow to hit it on top of the snap on dead blow. Hope that made sense

 

@hacklerjason we should try this method next time? haha

 

I did it with the pipe method and found out you want as thick of a pipe as you can find. Tried it with a thinner walled pipe and after about a hour with no luck I tried one with a pipe that's about 1/4" thick and both of them came off right away.

 

I tried the pipe method for about 5 minutes. Then took to a machine shop. First one took about a ton and a half and popped with no issues. The second one almost took all of the 50 tons and sounded like a bomb going off. But they're done.

In all the finding the correct parts I ended up with 4 axles: two Tacoma, one Chinese, and one 4Runner. The Chinese will be landfill. The 4Runner will be for sale (the one on the right).

 

i struggled with one. then this happened lol.

 

Ouch