today i was trying to replace my driver side axle. I cant pull it out from tranny, i used prybar, hummer and some other tools and it did not help. axle didnt move. nothing. i spent 3 hours for nothing.

any ideas what to do with it? there is only one thing which i have in my mind - take it to the mechanic shop

 

The only thing I can tell you is Pry is out. Leverage is Key.

You have the axle out of the Wheel hub correct ??

-matt

 

correct. i dont know whats wrong with it, because axle sometimes jumps out from tranny little bit and makes leakage of tranny fluid

 

i see what youre doing here.

 

the reason it poping out of the trans is because the oring on the shaft is bad...

anywho... just take a pry bar and give it hell... what i do is i grab the axle and give it a bunch of quick pulls...and its done....

 

thats what i was doing today for 3 hours

 

dude u need to put some powa into it....

come one get some beer and give it hell..

 

i did. its not the 1st time when i remove axle and i never had such a issue

 

I had this issue when i changed my tranny. we just wound up dropping the transmission with the axle still stuck in it lol. We pryed it out later. It took some force, but it does pry out. you might try turning the axle and trying at several angles. You want the open end of that little lock ring pointing down, it helps.

 

Jack the car up real high, and a long pry bar, with some *** behind it!

 

take the cv shaft and pushin and with the pry bar and your hand pull out at the same time they key is pushing in so it cant get off that ridge inside.

 

I usually say it's a one man job.., but in this case get a buddy to pull on it while u pry.

 

me and my friend were fighting with it, so now im sick of it.
any ideas how much shop will charge me for replacing axle? only labor, i have my own new axle

 

I don't know if it makes a difference but if you car is 5 speed, and if it's not in neutral, try doing that. My friend who is a mechanic told me it fixes the problem sometimes. But again, someone on here said it doesn't make difference.

 

i tried on neutral and when car was on 1, 5 and R gear

 

I understand your pain, I had the same issue. I went to advanced auto and got the biggest prybar that I could fit under the car ( I bought a whole set increased length = increased torque). I ended up using my legs and luckily my car was parked on the street so I used the curb for extra leverage. It almost came to the point where my car almost fell off the jack stands before it finally popped out.

 

a shop would charge about 75 stanndard labor for that if you have the part with you

 

Sound about right, call around.

 

To remove the drivers side halfshaft on an automatic trans. , I beleive you need to pull the right side halfshaft first.

 

I believe that one side requires a slide hammer and the other requires unbolting.

I've replace both sides. I don't remember which side is which. One time when I was pulling the sides with bolts on it, I used the slide hammer and it ripped the cv joint in half. I thought "oh crap" before I saw the bolts I had to unbolt.

Good luck. or pay a mechanic.