Driveshaft qu.

[Benzine]

Hi, new to the forum! I'm working on my girlfriend's car at the moment, working to an MOT failure list.

How do you get the driver side driveshaft out? I've undone the track rod end, hub-to-suspension bolts, moved that all to the side and managed to pull it out slightly, but it says in the haynes manual to lever it out at the transmission end, I can't seem to get any purchase on it, there's no lip, just a gentle curve so any levers just slide off it

It's a '96 1.0 automatic, btw. V. easy to work on apart from the driveshaft issue (Y) everything is so tiny, although I've just spent a couple of weeks working on a Bedford TK so it would seem small :grinning:

 

[andy]

a flat bar or big screwdriver inbetween cv joint and box and give it a few taps so it can compress the circlip, or you could put some molys on the shaft and hit them to release the circlp


http://www.micra.org.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=12075&stc=1&d=1235503703


thanks frank for pic

 

[Benzine]

Thanks for the info, all sorted now. I didn't see that little square hole before, a screwdriver up there allowed me to get further in and get purchase on a square edge so it came out no probs :grinning: