Todays Fail! Drive Shafts!!!!!

[kylelnsn]

Hi All,

Once again on the hunt for some advice and help!

Today I attempted to replace the CV boots on both sides of the car as well as a full front brake refresh. All went swimmingly.... for a while. I managed to take the drivers side out easily, and got it on the bench, cut off the old boot and cleaned up the old grease...

Went to remove the CV joint from the Driveshaft and fell on my face! It would not budge, not matter how hard I hit it, tried the pullers and it just would not budge! Several hours later and a significant number of swear words I have put it all back together cable tying the damaged CV boot back on for a minute. Having not changed anything 

FAIL!

So my question is, what did I do wrong???

What should I do next? Buy some cheap driveshafts? J&G on ebay?

Or can you recommend a decent quality driveshaft?

[doylebros]

After removing the failed Bootie and bootie clips I clamp the drive shaft in the vice then hold the joint in my left hand making sure it's level to the clamped shaft. Then I give the back of the CV joint a sharp clean clout with a 2lb hammer with my right hand and it jumps the retaining clip - once I've needed a heavier hammer and that's it!

Just take your driveshaft along to any local garage and I'm sure they'll fit the new bootie onto your driveshaft for a small fee.

[hunter2003k]

When i replaced my cv joints on my gti it took a serious ammount of battering to get the old ones to pop of the shaft, everything was quite rusty but enough patience and hitting and they eventually came off.

[vRSAlex]

For the first time ever a few weeks back, I had to put one in the press to get the shaft to pop. Nearly 8 ton of pressure!