96 F150, 5L, 5 speed manual, 2wheel drive. 2 piece driveshaft. Rear shaft rear yoke unbolts from pinion ok, front yoke connects to slip-joint (no splines visible, smooth w/grease fitting) directly behind center/carrier bearing. Slip moves back and forth nicely but will not slide off, is there something holding it in? I can't see anything, and am afraid to force it. u-joints are bad and I need to get the shaft off (work truck) please help, thanks
96 f-150 driveshaft removal
Dec 10, 2006
4 Replies
It will pull off if you pull hard enough. Best though, is to drop the carrier, take the whole assembly to the bench, and replace all 3 joints.
Don't forget to mark everything so it goes back the same way, ie the orientation of the parts to one another. Its balanced as an assembly. As for pulling the two shafts apart, you can just pull like the dickens, or you can use a pair of water pump pliers also known as channel locks and take the collar off first, and then it will almost fall apart. Whitelightning
The newer ones don't have the collar. Most of the ones I've done have a rubber bellows type boot you just unclamp one end of it and pull the slip yoke off.
I didn't think ford went to that bellows arrangement till around 2002.
Whitelightning
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