How to Remove Car Axles

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Mark is joking about these bolts here. They're notoriously undersized. They have a nice big head and really small threads. So often as not they break when you try to take them out. Maybe 20 percent of the time when you try to take these out they break and you get to drill them out. But this one came out in one piece. You can see what I'm talking about there, nice big head and little tiny threads and a long old shaft on it. So that's the pin that comes out. You want to be very careful when you do this now because all these springs and clutches and stuff, if you monkey around too much it all comes springing out at you. Then you'll just push the right side axle in a little bit and that'll loosen it up so you can get the sea clip out. There we got the sea clips out and that's all that holds the axles in your car. Now the axles are free to come right out. All we've been asked to do on this car is breaks. We're not doing any suspension or axle work. This is the inner surface of the axle bearing. So whenever we pull an axle out of a car we want to take a good careful look at this and make sure that this bearing surface is good and solid."