Wow, this sounds scary.
What year is your car? MT or AT?
With respect to the inner joint, don't these have a ring that prevents
the tripod bearings from coming out completely? Most of the ones i have
seen have this. The joint can extend alot before it actually comes out
of its place. In the past, the only thing I needed was to raise the
outer half shaft and push it in, no need to disassemble.
With respect to the tranny gears, I have not seen a design such as this
in which things can just fall into the tranny. I have seen a few in
which two gears are rotated together by the shaft and it may require
rotating the shaft while introducing it, to align both gear's splines.
In any case, best of luck!
Bill wrote:
> I was changing the shocks. I failed to sup****t the hub properly. I
> started putting in the finished passenger side strut and the axle
> seems extended with the boot stretched at the engine mounted bearing.
> It's too dark to work so tomorrow I plan to detach the control arm and
> punch the spline axle out of the hub then try to work it around until
> it finds its home in the bearing. I was wondering if it might be a
> better approach to start the engine and put it in reverse and hope to
> catch the spline for the bearing. I welcome suggestions. Thanks.
>
> Bill
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