axle will not come out!!

[sodikartracer]

I am in the middle of replacing the axles on my 91 festiva with 5 speed manual tranny. I have the passenger side done but i have tried and tried to get the driver side out of the tranny with no success. I have tried 1, 2, and 3, prybars but nothing will get it out. any ideas would be appreciated. thanks

[fastivaca]

Check out this thread....

http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14036

[sodikartracer]

hey thanks a lot man, i searched but i must have missed that. sounds like the same problem i am having. i will have to try some of the ideas listed there. i am heading to autozone right now to pick up a slide hammer tool.

[sodikartracer]

I GOT IT!!!!! with a little bit of crazy rigging my dad and i pulled it out. I will post pics of the set up in a little while.

[Levitan]

I GOT IT!!!!! with a little bit of crazy rigging my dad and i pulled it out. I will post pics of the set up in a little while.

I am anxiously awaiting those pics, because I'm doing the same job tomorrow!! Thank you very much in advance!!

[fastivaca]

I GOT IT!!!!! with a little bit of crazy rigging my dad and i pulled it out. I will post pics of the set up in a little while.

Glad to hear you were successful and didn't have to do what I did!

[sodikartracer]

sorry for the long wait i have been busy working. well we took some big heavy concrete smasher we found in the garage. solid steel weighs a crapload. Wrapped some steel cable around it, threaded the axle nut onto the axle then wrapped the other end of cable around that. lined it up straight and gave it a 1,2,3, pull with 2 guys on the end of the concrete breaker. oh it came out, flying out. here is the pics lets see if this works because i have not done it before. thanks for the help Fastivaca

[jglutz]

Nice Body!!!!
Better Rigging!!!!

[sodikartracer]

haha thanks

[Levitan]

I'd like to see some more pics of that ride!!

[scitzz]

Noww dats whut Ah'd cull redenck engineering at her finest!
haha
I have an old cd player/stereo in my work shed that has the tray that pops out to hold 3 cd's. Well, everytime you close it, it cycles, then pops back out. So I put masking tape over it to hold it closed, then labeled it "Redneck Engineering"!...

[sodikartracer]

Levitan - As you can see the drivers side paint is a little sun faded, (but the passenger is not). But hey I got the car for 80 bucks IN RUNNING CONDITION!!! I put a new valve cover gasket on it and a new water pump. I added the stereo w/ handsfree blutooth and speakers. And just last week I put new tires and new axles on it. Heres a couple of pics I don't really have many of the car.

[Levitan]

80 bucks, you were robbed! I'll help you woth re4covering your money. I'll give you a Benjamin for it. I know, I'm a nice guy!

Really, nice ride dude!

[sodikartracer]

haha there is no way!!! yea the guy was ganna scrap it and we were like well hell ill take it off ur hands. The guy had hopes that we would run the 24 hours of lemons race with it, but we saw what good of shape it was in and now its my daily driver. And now i get to laugh at my friends who are sucking up 13mpg in their trucks hahahaha. they envy me : )

[Omgloltokyodrift]

Dude, that is sooooo clean for freggin $80!!! How many miles?