Driveshafts

[BIGUNDIES]

I have been stripping down my rear suspension today and I have struck a problem. On the driveshaft there are two cross bearing joints (forgive the description as I'm an electrician), I removed the four C clips but can not see how I remove these joints from the driveshaft. I do have access to an engineering workshop if special tools are needed. Any suggestions would be very appreciated.

Cheers

Lee

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[TonyD]

Lee,

This is an old favourite asked many times this website.

I used a very large and hefty vice and pushed the universal joints out of their respective yokes using a socket that fitted inside the yoke on the top of one of the the bearing cups to provide the pushing power and a far larger socket on the other side of the vice to space the "twin" yoke away from the jaws of the vice.

You push the bearing cup through from one side to the other until the bearing cup that is pushed out of the yoke can be removed together with all its needle roller bearings.

These then immediately spill out from the cup all over your concrete garage floor and get completely lost thereby requiring a complete new set of universal joints.

A hydraulic press, if you know someone who has one, does the job far quicker and with less swearing !!

Cheers,

Tony

[BIGUNDIES]

Thanks for the advice Tony. I am going to take the driveshafts to a friend of mine who works in an engineering workshop with access to a hydraulic press.

Cheers

Lee

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