Help!!!1!!!1!1
I give in! I've been at this for 4 hours now and I figured it would be a fairly easy job.
I have my Autozone 7336 ready to rock.
I attempted to go about replacing the CV just as the diy suggested, but managed to shear the ball joint retaining bold head off. 142k of New England winters, I suppose. And maybe I was a bit hasty with the breaker bar and not enough PB. I'm not sure how I'm going to fix it just yet.
I then decided "screw it...." since I need the car for work tomorrow and disconnected the strut from the spindle. Without marking it. Could probably use an alignment anyway. I got enough wiggle room to pull it out of the tranny, but the green cup is staying attached. No matter what I've done, I cannot get the axle out of the hub.
After reading Apex-XTs how to, I decided that was next. LCA plate removed, inner nut and bolt on LCA removed...plenty of movement for things to wiggle and nothing. I've hammered the end of the axle using a bearing race driver, 3/8" drive extension and took to just hammering the hell out of the axle nut to no avail. I've PB'd it and can't get it to budge.
Any suggestions? What am I missing?
I consider myself fairly adept at repairs and am embarrassed that this is defeating me so.
I know that the ball joint retaining bolt will be okay for now, but I would like to repair it. Any suggestions on that, as well?
Thanks guys!