hi i am trying to remove the tail shaft housing to straighten out my drive gear (either clip broke or came loose but gear is not in right place to mesh with the driven gear on my speed sensor) but i have Ws6 suspension with that said, do i really need to remove the torque arm completely? cause then i have lower rear axle and remove rear coil springs which seems like alot of work just to remove the tail shaft housing. i dont want the torque arm to tear through my floor obviously. or am i going about this wrong way?

 

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Just unbolt the TQarm mount off the side of the tailshaft housing. The Tqarm will just hang there

 

Should do to just fold some cardboard over the arm's tip and just let it go up against the body floor.

 

how much tension is on that arm? if i do that will i be able to pull it back down into place? that does sound like a awesome idea

 

I was able to pull it back down without using any tools for assistance.
Also, if you remove it completely, all you need to do is secure the axle with something so it won't drop too far.
If you remain on the ground, make sure to secure the vehicle from moving about too much.

 

ok thanks ill try the cardboard idea first. not to sound stupid in front of the gear heads or anything, but what is the torque arm for? does it locate the rear differential? is it there to keep the axle in one place when you punch it? how dangerous is this piece of metal?

 

When you have the car jacked up, the tque arm will just hang there when you loosen the front mount. There is no trust being applied to the rear wheels so there is not upward or downward tension being applied to the TQarm when it is just at static rest.--just unbolt it, it will move out of bolt position with just a little tension, but nothing dangerous. You can push and pull it about by hand. It will just hang there.

 

The torque arm mainly keeps your rear axle from rotating

 

thanks for the info got it all off and tailshaft housing off the drive gear retainer was broken and drive gear was too far up the output shaft it wasn't meshing with driven gear on VSS. new retainer is on the way, but cannot get drive gear off shaft. the clip has been removed

 

Great. Good luck with the gear
I have not experience with the gear itself, so I'm out of advice for now.

 

i got it off by using handle side of pliers against back side of gear, and tapping it off using a hammer seen here. now just gotta get new retainer and put back together and hopefully ill have a working speedo again
thanks for all the help man i would not have gotten this far without your help