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manage13 Proficient

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Hi all, its me again with yet another plea for help. I'm hoping someone in the SAU community can help me out.

I have dropped my motor (from k frame) just to be able to remove/work on engine with ease. I am trying to separate the engine from K frame at the moment but I am having issues removing the front LHS shaft. Just wondering is there a trick to removing it?

Below are pictures of the shaft in question.

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Any advice/ help is much appreciated!

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doo doo Proficient

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is that your driveshaft (ie have you got it out that far)? If not you pop it out by taking off the front diff cover and levering it from inside. Detatch the bottom ball joint and sway bar link to swing the strut out for the driveshaft to have enough room to remove it. Hope that helps

Duncan Grand Master

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but if thos pics are not yours.....getting it started the first time can be really difficult, there is a ciclip in there to stop ths shaft coming out easily. lever it from multiple points between the slot on the driveshaft and the diff cover bolts with bid screwdriver / pry bar.

if you are that far out and stuck you must have it cocked at an anle somehow...straighten by tapping on the side of the driveshaft and it should pop right out.

unless you cant get it any further because the other end is stopping it....in which case doo doo covered it

blind_elk Grand Master

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You need to remove the outer end from the wheel hub first. That entails effectively disassembling the front suspension to get enough movement of the hub to slip off the end of the shaft.

Then use pry bars in the machine slot of the inner end to lever the shaft out of the diff. (no need to remove the diff cover plate).

BTW - that's the RHS shaft. It only appears to be the LH shaft because you are looking at it from the front.

bbb Apprentice

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guys,

having the same problem at the moment.

I have separated the shaft at the CV (grease everywhere), but cannot get the inboard part of the shaft out. Have undid the diff cover (only gotten it out about 15mm) hoping that once it is out of the way I might be able to get something behind the shaft end.

Can anyone help with exploded views / diagrams.

kidafa Veteran

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Ok well im preparing to pull the front passenger shaft on my RS4 Stagea as I've got a split inner CV boot :)

Theirs a good outline on page 10 and 11 of this manual for doing in for a gtr so think it should be much the same.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4964854/GTR-Engine-Removal

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