Please Help - Front Axle Replacement

[juejaimon]

Hi All,

I am in urgent need of advice from you pros!

I begun taking to change out my front axles due to long time broken CV boots.

I have the spindle nut off and the axle off of the hub, but i cannot get the axle off of the other end (engine side). I am working on the driver's side now and have not started on the passenger's side yet.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advace.

[mitmaks]

http://www.projectmazda.com/tech/howto/rightaxle/

[juejaimon]

Thanks for the link mitmaks !

I am currently stuck on the left axle though... (Driver's Side)

[honeybabes]

did you ever get this out...well i guess you did since it's almost 6 months ago he he. Anyways, I'm planning to change my boot aswell and want to do it myself. If you were successful with this can you give me a small how to? I know the link is helpfull but I just want to know if I can do it myself or just bring it the shop.

thanks

Originally posted by juejaimon:
Thanks for the link mitmaks !

I am currently stuck on the left axle though... (Driver's Side)

<small>[ September 26, 2004, 08:58 PM: Message edited by: honeybabes ]</small>

[Darcy]

For the record, Petro Canada Certigard charged me $135 for each axle and $151.20 for the labour and $7.56 for supplies.

Add several helpings of taxes and you're gonna be probably just under $500

[2fazed]

I was quoted $100 in parts and $100 in labor, approx 1 hour labor rate for one side. I asked them about it and they said the axle is pretty easy to replace myself. Just replacing the cv joints is very hard.

[What]

The drivers side should be pretty much same steps, minus you don't have to worry about the half-shaft/jack-shaft/center shaft/3rd cv... whatever guy 'x' wants to call it.

Drivers side axle on my BP donor car is giving me grief as well. These are just the usual pop out of the transmission kind are they not (passenger side was quick and easy)? Transmission side won't pop out of transmission and the wheel hub side is rusted in. Looks like heat on both sides when I get a few minutes.

I'd say rusty bolts are the only potential pain in the butt of doing it yourself if you don't have the tools.

[OsoSlo z28]

there's a tool that looks somewhat like a tuning fork with pointed tips. you just hammer it between the tranny case and the axle. if you don't have this tool, a good pry bar seems to work.

[What]

I think the tool you are talking about are usually sold as balljoint seperators. I didn't try that, but normally they come out with a nice pry bar as you say. I even specially chopped up one of the old pry bars I had lying around for such tasks. Perhaps I'll try the seperator first and go from there. I may just pop the boot off, pull the cv apart, and worry about it outside of the car where I have a little more room to bang away.

[What]

Ball joint seperator did the trick... thanks for the suggestion. What a pain she was though...