If your connection was solid (eg drill and tap) to attach the slide hammer then there is very little difference in pulling or pushing from the other side.

I'm not familiar with the inner workings of the dif to know if there is a clear path through the center.

Since the left CV has to come out before you can get the dif out I would be inclined to try a push possibility.

I think that the clip is jammed in a way that can't be pushed in or out and exactly like the example thread above, but it would be worth one more attempt.

I would consider one crazy possibility before removing the dif:

Using the replacement CV to determine exactly where the snap ring is, you could drill a hole in the dif casing where you can use a probe to push the snap ring up into the groove so it clears the obstruction.

After you can use an expansion nut to plug the hole.

The obvious problem is how to keep metal chips out of the dif in the end. If it's steel casing that shouldn't be too hard but either way you'll have a 1" hole to reach in once you extract the CV.

Ask the guy from the other thread of he thinks that would work.

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2012 E70 • N63 (wife)