How do you seperate a GQ CV from the axle?

[TUFFRANGIE]

Can't work it out guys and i was hoping to finish this tonight. Any help is appreciated

Rob

PS it is short side if it matters

[blackmav]

Taken the circlip off?

[xenith]

it can b very hard mate i like to open a vice but axle down through it leave vice loose then grab the axle from below push up a bout 200mm and slam the cv down againc the vice this might take a fue hits but have found it to work the best . but in saying that sometimes they just will not come off
what a shocker with the key board should proff read before hitting sumit ah

[TUFFRANGIE]

ok stupid question, i have looked over the whole cv. Which circlip and how do i remove it?

[Wendle]

there is a circlip inside, but don't worry, you can't get to it. easiest way to do it is to slide the inner axle into a piece of pipe so that the inner race of the CV will rest against the end of the pipe (32nb works well), then slam the CV down onto it, so the weight of the inner axle pulls the CV free. it will fall into the pipe, so best to put a block of timber, or a rag, or something underneath it to stop it slamming into the concrete. it can take quite a few hits to get the short side free sometimes as there is less weight there, but the long side usually comes free in one or two hits. you can then either re-use the circlip in side your new CV (after you clean up the splines on the end of the inner axler a bit (this proccess tends to chip a few off the very end of the axle), or put a small tack weld in the right spot on the splines on the diff end of the axle to stop it floating, in which case you don't need the inner circlip anymore. (search martack in the toyota section for more info on this)