Originally Posted by hayaku

well.. another 45 mins and i hit another snag. i need my air compressor to remove the big 36mm axle flange nut because the whole thing spins when i try to turn it (duh, its a bearing)... anyways, its late and i can't fire it up. I'll have to try to come home early and fire up the compressor and remove that nut before my neighbors complain its too late to use it..

so it *should* take about 1 hour to remove everything so you can service just the outer cv boot if you are working with the shaft still in the truck.

with all the time i'm wasting and small snags i've hit, it would've been a good thing to have the dealer service it for me for $450usd. oh well.. too late now and i'll have the job completed for under $30 but lost alot of time (this should've been done in 1 day).