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Originally Posted by chubyball
Hayaku,
I am looking at the pictures and trying to understand why do you have to remove the cv off the center hub for? Because the pic locates (prep is done, time to reassemble from here below the yellow hammer) below the yellow hammer's pic, it tells me if you just disconnect the shaft off the ball joint part then you don't need pull the ball joint off the hub.
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if you don't remove the cv joint off, how are you going to get the new boot on? the small side has to slide on the shaft before the cv joint. also, you rather work with just the cv joint versus working with a heavy large hub and a cv joint that wobbles trying to put that back on the shaft.
this is the easiest way... the TIS also has these steps.
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your pic 2 comment: you need to remove the cv joint right there.. hammer it off. i used the 3/8" extensions as "chisels" to hammer it off on the flat spots of the cv joint.
your pic 3 comment: yes, the strut bolts have to be removed. they are left in so they can hold up the heavy swivel bearing while i extracted the hub with the claw puller.