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    Quote Originally Posted by BillBoost37 View Post
    FWIW, searching on my name and the word "eas y" without the space will usually get you most any write up you may need on a 3800. Easiest way to do a trans removal possible. How to remove a transmission

    WSTEFAN, you are doing some great stuff. Seems that you know your stuff well and are giving back to the community all the time. Thumbs up man! I would mention that pulling the dipstick tube before draining the pan is going to drop about a quart of so of fluid on the person.

    Axles are held in the transmissions with c clips. Known as compression clips. The easiest way to remove the axles is to put the axle toward the transmission first to relieve any pressure on the clip then give it a quick hit out of the trans. On the passenger side this is super easy as you can crawl under put a hammer handle against the back of the inner cup and give it one quick smack. Driverside is best done with an angled prybar. My personal favorite tool for this is gearwrench 82248. Don't buy one unless you do a lot of work on a car. But the indexing head and a little practice will make anyone that ever popped an axle out hate your guts. Scottydoggs saw the tool in action and nearly fell over (long way down for him). Other that that.. take a view of the write up I posted and review WSTE's write up and you'll breeze right through it.
    Thanks Bill! I've used pretty much all of your how-tos at this point, thanks for taking the time! And thanks for the catch on the dipstick. I was writing that off memory so things may be a bit out of order.... lol plus I'm not the cleanest mechanic....

    Hadn't thought of pushing in first on the axle but it makes sense! I'll have to try that next time!
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    Quote Originally Posted by wstefan20 View Post
    Hadn't thought of pushing in first on the axle but it makes sense! I'll have to try that next time!
    I've tried to pull axles when people have put a rope around and yanked before I got there. The clip will often set itself solidly against the output shaft/diff (depending on which side) and then it's nearly impossible to pull. You can also take the trans out with them in if need be. But it's less fun. Once passenger is out, you can pull the diff and that will allow you to slide the output shaft out with drivers CV on it. At that point pull out BFH and you can now hit the back of the inner cv cup to get it off. Oh yeah.. I've had some fun in the past.

    When I was doing these often enough a trans swap would take me 3-4 hours. I believe Scotty pulled in at 10am, we stopped for a while when friends came to get firewood and he was back on the road home after test drive etc at 2pm. Toolbox was close by, I knew each and every tool I needed before I got in position and things go smoothly.

    If you have the means.. that prybar is the cats meow.
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