[Shotimes] halfshaft removal from the knuckle

[Justin Schick]

Greetings all,

I'm helping Rich (remember the Help in KC post?) replace the struts on
this 95 ATX. We got the front passenger side done last night, and the
driver's side 95% disassembled. We had to quit as we were unable to get
the strut out of the knuckle with the halfshaft still connected. We
barely got the passenger side out in the same manner; the only reason we
could come up with is the driver's side has a shorter shaft between the
joints, thus giving us less range of movement.

He's going to rent the large socket (36mm?) to take the nut off the end
of the shaft. The Helms also mentions a puller type device that bolts to
the wheel studs. I have only seen this tool in use once, while at Tim
Dahm's helping to extract my quaifed MTX. I've asked about renting it at
parts stores in the past and just get blank deer in headlights stares.
Is it really not needed? Will we be able to get the halfshaft out of the
knuckle by just removing the nut?

TIA for any insight,


Justin Schick
silver 92 SHO in KC MO
194k and counting quickly