This is for my 2k max.

The diff. bearings in my piece of fawking $hit 5spd are shot...again...at 100k miles. I'm trying to remove the tranny and am having a hell of a time trying to loosen the driver side axle nut. I've broken 3 breaker bars trying to get the focker off. I weigh 275lb and jumping on the damn thing can't get it to budge.

Would I have better luck with an impact wrench? Would a impact wrench have more torque than me jumping on a 28" breaker bar?

Can I leave the driver side cv axle bolted the hub and pull the tranny out? Will I have difficulties putting the tranny back in with the drivers side axle still bolted to the hub?

 

Holy $#!T!!! I broke mine easy with a 3' breaker bar!

 

have you tried spraying some rust remover or something like that on it yet

 

If you're doing it perfectly right, 275 lbs at 28" is 632 ft-lbs. This is assuming you're doing it perfectly right, meaning your standing on the very edge of the breaker bar and you are forcing your entire weight perfectly perpendicular to the breaker bar (which is unlikely). That's alot of torque, and it's more than most impact wrenches have. An impact wrench that can do more than 650 ft-lbs is going to need a good air compressor and the impact wrench will run you over $150 bucks.

Anyway, what you want to do is soak the sucker in penetrant oil (NOT regular oil...Penetrant will do a much better job of penetrating through to the threads). Then wait awhile, and hit it again with the breaker bar. Most likely this will work perfectly for you. If it doesn't, if you can get an impact wrench over 500ft-lb's, this might work. Otherwise as a LAST resort, you can try to heat the nut up with a cutting torch (WITHOUT the cutting tip on it). Heating it up will cause it to expand and loosen. Then while it's hot, hit it with the impact or the breaker bar.

This is what happened while trying to get the crank pully bolt off on my wife's '91 Integra. That sucker was on there so tight, my 550ft-lb impact wouldn't even budge it. I had to heat the bolt up with an acetalyne cutting torch before it would come off.

Oh, and by the way, in order to get the tranny out, you'll need to take out BOTH half-axles, and I don't believe you can get the tranny out with the axle still bolted to the hub.

 

An impact wrench (625 ft/lbs max reverse torque, "twin hammer" design if that means anything) ripped off the locknuts on my 5th gen in about 4 seconds. I had tried a breaker bar with a 5 foot long iron pipe stuck over it, standing on the end and jumping, to no avail, once before when I was going to check the wheel bearings.

 

I sprayed a bunch of this stuff on yesterday. I looked at it again and it's a 24" breaker bar, not 28". I'm jumping on the end of it and the bar is almost perfectly paralell with the ground.

Are Snap on tools that much better? I don't really want to buy one unless I have to since a Snap On 24" breaker bar is $89.99. What about craftsman?

I'm at the point now where more torque would be useless since I'm breaking the square 1/2" drive.

 

I have a friend with a compressor. I might go to sears and do a buy/return with it:
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...te=CRAFT&cs=e1

800ft/lbs of TQ better get that off!

 

I got the 710ft/lb model and the SOB came off after a few tries.

 

That was on there tight! How much was the torque spec on that bolt? I can't remember.