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Originally Posted by sandbagger
Trying to remember, it was 100,000 miles ago
I think to get the short shaft out you dont, just pull the Guiblo out and you can slide the shaft forward enough to get the shaft out, at a min you should be able to get a good look at the splines to see if they are trashed. The splines on the TC side very rarely get hurt. To get the longer shaft in I didnt want to mess with the front diff as your talking pulling both 1/2shafts out. I pulled the rear drive shaft and backed the trans to TC bolts off so there were just a few threads holding them and slid the TC back.
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A prybar made pretty easy work of it for me. Your mileage may vary though. unbolt the driveshaft from the flex disk and that from the front diff, then work a prybar in and lever the driveshaft as far back as you can. The guibo and centering piece should drop right out once you have made enough room.
You can also take some measurements before and after said lever operation to get a sense of how much new spline you can work in, and still get the flex disk assembly back into place. This of course if you don't want to pull the transfer case off to get max new splines in.