CV Inner ball hub removal from drive-shaft tricks?

[AKAvant]

So I'm replacing my cv boots and I have the axles off the car and the cv's disassembled but I do not have a table or a vice to work with. The inner ball hub does not want to slide off the shaft (circlip is removed) easily. I've started tapping on it lightly with a hammer and wooden dowel but with no success. Any one have some tricks?
Thanks!
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[Phishman068]

I'd say about 5-10% of them actually come off easily. The rest require a bracing of some type (vice) and a hammer.
I've even needed a sledge hammer on a few of them! I use a punch that's the right size to fit inside the little hole in the shaft.

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[Timwhy]

axle loosely in a vise and tap in a circular motion on the axle to free the inner race from the axle?
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[syncrodoka]

I use a 3 jaw puller and it comes off nicely.

[dhaavers]

Without a vice, how about drill a hole in a 2x4 slightly larger than the axle shaft, prop it
across a couple buckets or garbage cans & tap it out of the CV inner race as described...???

(Put a stack of towels on the floor to catch the axle when it drops out)

Yeah...I think like a cheap guy...
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[AKAvant]

All good ideas, I'll try the puller first. Biking up to napa first thing in the morning. Need a bleeder too, changing clutch master and slave, and swapping in SS brake lines. Full day......gotta love 32 year old vdubs.
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1982 Westy 1.6 diesel (Sold 10/1/14)
1999 Caravelle 2.5TDI Syncro
2003 California 2.5TDI Syncro

[IdahoDoug]

Be sure you put some PB Blaster or other proper penetrating oil (NO wd40 or mere lube) on the clutch slave bolts. Getting that thing out is an exercise in frustration. I posted a technique to get it out. Have a gear wrench for it. Still a pain. Have fun. That hard plastic line on mine failed, so consider replacing it with the one from Bus Depot http://www.busdepot.com/251721477d while you are in there disconnecting it to replace the slave. Also, you can weld the nut on the slave bracket that will give you hell while removing it to make install easy and future service easy. JB Weld would be sufficient.

DougM
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[dhaavers]

^^^ Clutch slave - yeah.

The front bolt is easy from underneath. For the back one I'd always managed from the engine bay
by jamming a big cold chisel to stop the nut spinning, then 2 wobble extensions stacked on my ratchet.

Then I joined Samba and learned to weld that nut in place. SWEET!
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