removing front and rear axles-RESOLVED

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:43 pm

I will be dropping the front and rear axles to work on them thoroughly and comfortably (alot of rust). Are there any safety/precautions I should be aware of?

baltobernie · Post by **baltobernie** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:35 pm

Fronts are all the same, but rears are different. What year is your car?

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:48 pm

1969 850 spider

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:42 pm

is that rust or mud in the photos?

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:15 pm

it is rust

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 12:13 am

wow, I hope you lots of penetrating oil

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 5:39 pm

lol!!! I do, + elbow grease and patience

v6spider · Post by **v6spider** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:29 pm

Wow that is an insane amount of rust.... did the car spend a lot of time on salted roads?

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:09 pm

v6spider wrote:Wow that is an insane amount of rust.... did the car spend a lot of time on salted roads?

Nope. that would explain all the rust but, it was parked in 120 degrees (dry) summers for about 5 years. and little to no rain through out the year. it's been out of commission since '94 collecting dust and rust.

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:29 pm

I dropped the rear axle and gearbox today. It was a pain in the @$$. I thought I would do the front and back today but, the back gave me a lot of trouble. the nuts and bolts were easy to loosen. The gearbox mounting brackets were in the way of the A-arm mounting brackets. Lowering the gearbox to move the mounts out of the way caused the A-arm mounts to drop as well and the bolts ended up out of alignment. I was able to punch the bolts out but it took forever due to limited hammer swing space.

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:29 pm

Front and rear axles are off. Didn't have much trouble removing nuts and bolts. I think the grease and layer of dirt saved them from seizing up. I put penetrating oil on 3 bolts is all. the only difficulty was the rear as stated in earlier post.

4uall · Post by **4uall** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:34 pm

awesome, any pics?

stello3 · Post by **stello3** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:49 pm

4uall wrote:awesome, any pics?

here are the pics of the removed axles and transmission

REAR and TRANSMISSION

FRONT

Started cleaning the parts

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