Interesting repair methods

sleeper

sleeper

Former LOD President
I just did the CV shafts on a toyota camry for a guy i work with. To get them out i had to employ a method that at first glance would appear to be incredibly stupid. once i got everything loose, they were supposed to just pull out. Yea right. I tried prying and hammering to no avail. So after a couple of hours of wasting time, i said to hell with it, and backed a truck up next to the car. Wrapped a ratchet strap around the inner cv joint and hooked it up to the trailer hitch. Pulled it a little bit, until the car shifted a bit, then relaxed the tension just a little and got underneath with a hammer. Came right off. Luckily, my friends prediction that the car would come right off the jackstands was inaccurate.

Just thought that was interesting, considering one would generally expect disaster to ensue when using another vehicle to remove parts from a car. Does anyone else have any interesting and/or stupid repair methods to share?
 
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I used a front end loader to pick up the back of my truck so I could change a tire. No jacks, very uneventful, worked well.
 
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if you had a ball joint seperator that was big enough it would have come right out. just put it between the transaxle and the cv shaft and hammer it out. also if you only had one wheel in the air and the car on a floor jack you could have rocked the car so that the wheel on the ground would go forward and then backward. while pulling on the shaft, usually they pop right out.
 
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oh by the way, did you make your friend slide under the car and do the hammer work since he said it would fall off the jack stands?
 
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No, he just sat on his arse and drank another beer. I tried prying it out first but it didn't work. The problem is that there's not good place to put a pry bar or a pickle fork. The truck method worked fine, though.
 
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Usually there is a cotter pin (or similar device)holding those CV joints in on the transmission side of the unit. Removing the pin usually facilitates a much easier removal of the part in question.
 
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Usually there is a cotter pin (or similar device)holding those CV joints in on the transmission side of the unit. Removing the pin usually facilitates a much easier removal of the part in question.
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Sure... now you tell him. ;-)
 
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no pin. I had the factory service manual and the chiltons manual. They just pull out. With a truck.
 
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Dave, we should've used this method on my trans in February. It wouldv'e made it so much quicker, LOL.
 
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Somehow I don't think the part about the truck was in either the chiltons or haynes manuals....

Though the british manual for my Triumph Motorcycle says in the general section that "severe persuasion may be required to remove some parts from the motorcycle"

I took that to mean hammer, but I can see where a truck could also be employed for the task.

Scott
 
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