Jack,
No need to remove that pinion nut, unless you want bigger troubles
(thereby making tomorrow worse).
Time for a slide hammer. A rentable item. I don't recall if you
have wire wheels or not. I've done the job several times where the axle
brakes just inside of the diff carrier bearing and mushrooms so the axle
wont come out, and significantly, neither will the diff!!
I had a wire wheel car at the time I was teaching my GF to drive..
the only time I had my axles break... and I got a used knackered knock-off
which I drilled for the slide hammer. Not sure how to go about it with a
disc wheeled car.
Once the shaft came out, then I could pull the pig and the stubby
bit fell out. The bearing seemed none the worse for the whacking it got
when the mushroomed end of the shaft was squeezed through it. A little
rinsing out of metal shards, reinstallation of pig and axle, and Bob's your
uncle.
Good luck.
Peter C
==
At 11:22 PM 10/16/2002, you wrote:
>That left axle still will not budge. The long bar didn't work because of
>the cross pin which I finally saw (in the pinion gear?) when I took my
>flashlight out of my pocket. The diff will probably come off tommorrow
>after I take the nut off the end of the pinion gear. Amazing what a
>flashlight will show you when you point it in the right direction.
>
>I'm worried about that left axle though. I've put some serious force on it
>now. Has anyone ever fried a bearing and welded it to the axle and
>housing? I'd think I would have heard some serious noise if that had happened.
>
>Tommorrow's got to be better. Jack
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