I need to remove my front driveshaft whilst keeping the front wheels on the car roger clark says its possible but i need help. Does anyone have any tips or ideas how i can go about it. Cheers.

 

make your life easier, take the wheel off!

 

I need to do the same to lift the engine & gearbox all @ once...Ive been at it for 11 hours!

I took the wheel off but cant seem to get the nut off the middle of the disc....So tried it with the wheel on the floor....no good. Even tried with a pole over the bar for extra leverage....still not moving...

Anyone have any ideas as I think my neighbour has a hernia!!?

 

You just need to undo the 3 bolts holding the lower suspension arm on, takes about 2 mins, then just pull the shaft off of the Gearbox stub axle.

 

Make sure you knock the driveshaft pins out first though

 

okay lovely....i'll try that tomorrow...

 

but then the driveshaft is still attached to the car, or are you removing the gearbox instead of the driveshaft?

 

well I only really wanted to remove it from the gearbox, but could do with removing it from the car...as I think one may be a bit knackered at the CV.

Any ideas how to get that enormous nut off??

 

I got the shaft out from the gearbox as SSCJAY said!!

 

Scoobyclinic use a huge air driven impact gun. Also you need to release the staking where it is hammered into the groove on the end of the shaft. I believe the nut is 32mm, it really needs impact shock rather than just leaning on it so you might get it off with a large bar and a 4lb club hammer but this is a bit crude.

 

Air tools it is then!