Pulling half-shafts out of the diff?

Trying to pull my half-shafts on my R, but they don't to want to come out of the diff.
I've watched all the video's online but mine won't come out that easy?
Any help?
Thanks

[MENTION=23430]honeybadger[/MENTION], any advice?

They don't come out easily. My advice is to get a good pry bar, the longer the better (I would say at least 40"). You are going to have to get a little medieval on it, especially if the car is on jack stands. I think it's probably easier to do if the car is on a hoist. I had trouble and I'm a little bigger and stronger than average. But once I applied sufficient force and leverage they popped right out. They went back in fairly easily as well.

If your car is on jack stands, be 100% sure it's not going to come off and fall on you when you are cranking on the pry bar. I like to put a wheel or two under the car just in case. I'm sure you don't want to put the CF R wheels under there, but even though they are expensive your life is worth more.

Cant you use the half shalf/CV Joint puller?

firestarter2 said:

Cant you use the half shalf/CV Joint puller?

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I order a set of these, I heard they work
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JHKZCKM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


[MENTION=12069]Hack[/MENTION]
Thanks for the tips, I'll put the wheels under the car for sure

I have this for my truck

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Otc-7509...l9=pla&wl10=100362769&wl11=online&wl12=404635

I have had good luck with these, worked great on the wife's Mazda.

https://www.amazon.com/OTC-Inner-CV-Joint-Puller/dp/B000O825QU

I got both of mine out by simply yanking hard on the end of the half shaft once I got it disconnected from the wheel hub. It takes a pretty good pull, but it pops right out. I tried to use a pry bar first and I couldn't get it to budge. Got frustrated, yanked and came right out. Felt quite dumb after. Ha

Until I read this thread, and it caused me to research a bit more, I had no idea that the shafts could be removed without popping the diff cover and removing C-clips holding the shaft to the diff. This just made my life so much easier for the future.

HISSMAN said:

Until I read this thread, and it caused me to research a bit more, I had no idea that the shafts could be removed without popping the diff cover and removing C-clips holding the shaft to the diff. This just made my life so much easier for the future.

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It's still a b*tch!! lol

Oh come on... Two words guy... Slide Hammer

Slide Hammer for sure !
For those having trouble popping half shafts out of differential, there is a little trick to it.
Everyone in the videos say pry it out with pry-bar against diff housing and metal housing of half shaft. On some models you can pry all day and even use two bars and axle still won't budge. On a GT350 I almost broke my 4ft pry-bar, still no luck.
The trick is to use a blunt force. This will cause the inner c-clip to release.
I used a "Tire Bead breaker tool" (Pictured) I positioned the flat end on the half shaft metal housing and gave a gentle slide-hammer with tool, and it popped out right away.
Actually, the guy who said use a long 1/2" extension and big hammer was pretty good advice for those who can't get ahold of a slide hammer device.

honeybadger said:

I got both of mine out by simply yanking hard on the end of the half shaft once I got it disconnected from the wheel hub. It takes a pretty good pull, but it pops right out. I tried to use a pry bar first and I couldn't get it to budge. Got frustrated, yanked and came right out. Felt quite dumb after. Ha

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I've never pulled the shafts from this car, but as an off-topic Public Service Announcement - yanking a half-shaft by hand is a great recipe for pulling your back out or herniating a disk. No criticism at all to honeybadger, just don't want to see you guys get hurt.

Mach4.6 said:

I order a set of these, I heard they work
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JHKZCKM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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I have a set of those, they have worked well on other cars where even a very long pair of pry bars failed.

Mach4.6 said:

Trying to pull my half-shafts on my R, but they don't to want to come out of the diff.
I've watched all the video's online but mine won't come out that easy?
Any help?
Thanks

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I used a slide hammer axle fork super easy.