Okay, I'm breaking axleshafts. Anyone know how to get the remaining chunk of axle out of the splines?

 

Pull the diff out of the housing to get access.

 

I did this at the track a couple of years ago. I ended up going to a parts store and getting a magnet that was on the end of a metal flex hose. It wasn't long enough so I cut the handle off and used some heavy fuel hose to fit on the end of the flex shaft and got out the chunk this way. As a matter of fact, i'm looking at the busted piece right now.

 

dbl post.

 

Take the other axel out and use a broom stick handle to push it out. Had to do this on a 59 Impala. Way way back when.

 

How easy is it to break an axle?

 

I used a pipe to push one out from the other side on a friends Jeep one time. Worked well. Just be careful of all the little pieces that may be in the diff/axle housing now. His looked like a clean break, but it actually had a LOT of pieces floating around in there. Use a good light to look for little pieces down inside the housing tube, and if there are some, a magnet like described above works well, as does a metal coat hanger to pull them out. Good luck!

~T.J.

 

Im just curious - where in the axle did it break?

 

I brake shafts all the time in my 4WD. Sometimes they end up wedging themselves in there so bad that one of those little magnets on a stick just won't do it. I ended up making an 12V electromagnet remover out of a bad battery charger. It works real slick and is powerfull enough to pull most broken shafts. Another slick way I have seen guys remove them was to put a welding rod on a long stick. Stick the rod aginst the shaft and touch the ground to the axle housing for a second. 36V (3 batteries in series) are all that you need. The rod will weld itself to the axle shaft and gives you alot of pullingpower.

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