Hello, I'm looking for suggestions for what to do next... I'm attempting to replace the right hand front halfshaft on my wife's '95 Subaru Impreza and I'm having an extremely difficult time getting the old shaft out of the hub. According to the manual (chiltons) that I have, everything that needs to be removed for this to happen has been removed, but the shaft will not budge. The book shows a special puller which Subaru has and I'm sure can be bought for a hefty price, so I welded up my own using some 1/4" steel and a 2 ton bottle jack from lowes. Here is a jpg of the tool in place and ready to be used:
For all practical purposes at this point I am too far along to put it back together and take it to a shop and I'm not sure that they would be able to do any more than I have, since the "correct" puller only uses screw threads to apply pressure. I suppose I could pull the entire hub and spindle and try to separate it with my full size hydraulic press but then that opens up another can of worms with alignment and ball joints and I don't really want to go there if I can at all avoid it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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