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Originally Posted by upallnight
There's a circlip that you may need to put a little grease to center it so it will compress enough for the axle to seat.
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Thanks for the tips.
I did have the splines and circlip greased up in my prior attempts and I felt like I was hitting it plenty hard to get it in there, but as it turns out I just needed to hit it harder.
I still had the old cv shaft, so I took the circlip off the old one and installed it just to be sure there wasn't some other problem - it went it just fine. I didn't want to take the circlip off the new one and risk deforming it too much, so I tried this on the old one (having already determined they were identical). Also, the circlips appeared to be the same diameter.
I finally got it to go in but I had to enlist the assistance of a helper to get it done. I had the knuckle removed, so I could get it lined up fairly straight (strut shaft was in the way a little, but I rotated it and pushed it to the side). While I held the cv shaft straight and kept it compressed, my helper gave a few good solid whacks with a 10 lb seldge hammer. It could probably be done with something smaller, but my 2 lb hammer wasn't getting the job done and the 10 lb was the next size up for me.
Also, when hitting the shaft, we had the old 36mm nut on the outboard end of the shaft, so as to not screw up the new shaft. The nut deformed a little, but came right off when we were done.
I've installed other cv shaft before - this is the hardest I have had to smack one to get it to seat in the differential.
Thanks, guys.