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After a lot of reasearch and help from you lot I manged to tackle a changing my drive shaft.
Not too proud to say that this was a big job for me.
Hope this helps anyone thinking about doing it. There may be better ways but I didnt have a clue before starting.
Before starting I ordered a couple of specialist tools and parts:
Ball joint seperator
10mm square tranmission oil adaptor (photo 2)
New drive shaft
New dust covers
New oil seal
1. Prioir to tackling this job over the week before I sprayed WD40 on all the nuts and bolts that according to research were likely to cause problems.
So I started by emptying the tranmission fluid.
Remove the drain plug (Photo1)
TIP: make sure you can remove the filler nut first (the one on the side in the photo 3). you dont want to empty the fluid and find you cant fill it back up again.
Not too proud to say that this was a big job for me.
Hope this helps anyone thinking about doing it. There may be better ways but I didnt have a clue before starting.
Before starting I ordered a couple of specialist tools and parts:
Ball joint seperator
10mm square tranmission oil adaptor (photo 2)
New drive shaft
New dust covers
New oil seal
1. Prioir to tackling this job over the week before I sprayed WD40 on all the nuts and bolts that according to research were likely to cause problems.
So I started by emptying the tranmission fluid.
Remove the drain plug (Photo1)
TIP: make sure you can remove the filler nut first (the one on the side in the photo 3). you dont want to empty the fluid and find you cant fill it back up again.