I've got an Inland Empire alum driveshaft and I noticed that the rear seal on my tranny is leaking so I said "this shouldn't be too hard, I put the thing in there, I sure as hell can take it out to replace a seal, right?", wrong. I unbolted the retaining bolts on the yoke and tried to move it forward to pull it out of the yoke and it wouldn't move far enough. I've only got about 1/4" play in it until it stopped. I'm like, ooooooooook now what. Since I put it in I've had the gear changed to Richmod 3.23, would that have anything to do with this? Thanks for the help.

 

Where have you got your jackstands?

 

The driveshaft will be further into the tranny when the rear is at full droop. So raise the car by jacking up the rear axle first of all. Second of all, wobble the u-joint in the rear in a variety of ways. I have an aftermarket alum. shaft in one of my cars and I have to wiggle the u-joint back and forth, and rotate the pinion yoke a bit to get it out. Not tough, just takes effort.

But, is your slip yoke going into the trans. far enough?

 

The next time I'm under there I'll try jacking the rear back up into the car, I put the jackstands under the rear jacking points. I don't remember it being hard to install, but maybe I just got lucky or something.

I'm not sure what you mean by slip yoke but if its the one on the rear then I'm not sure. There is about 1/8-1/4 inch space between the rear end housing the the back of the yolk, since I don't remember how this was before I had the gears changed I have no reference to go off of.

 

I just helped out with this question...

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Remember, when you put your pry bar in there, don't be prying between the u-joint and the driveshaft! They're attached. Pry between the axle and the u-joint.