[EMBPilot]

I took the CV apart, and used all sorts of techniques. tried sitting the inner race on a vice, and hitting the socket on the top with a hammer, tried, hitting it with a heavy mallet, then came out the big guns...the gear puller, i was sure id have it now.. hooked the gear puller up (it wasnt a hydraulic one) and it didnt even budge. then i sat just the main shaft of the gear puller on the top, heated the CV and tried hitting that with a hammer. nothing. I supposed someone with a lot of patience, a bigger torch, or a hydraulic gear puller could probably get this thing off. But the new axle should be here next week. its really a shame, like i said, the CV looked really clean, no scoring, it was done only about 5K ago and about 4 years.

i did not try moving it back DOWN and then back up again. and completly forgot about trying breakfree on it... i wonder if that would have done it, cause the shaft seemed to stop JUST past where the circlip goes...

let me just tell you guys, ive been reading about doing this for sometime, i had the right tools, and when that circlip came right off, i though i was home free... borderline cocky!

touche' 944....touche`.....