>> According to the manuals, removing a rear half-shaft
>> on a series 3 is very easy. This assumes that the
>> half-shaft in question is intact. How big a job is
>> it to remove a broken one?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
>Depends where it is broken really - if you are lucky then it will have
>fractured near the hub end and, after pulling the hub and stub axle off you
>may be able to get hold of the remaining bit and draw it out of the axle. If
>it is fractured near the diff end then you'll have to get the backing plate
>off the diff to get access to the broken bit and then try feeding it down
>the axle from there - if it's fractured that far in then you'll have to
>strip the hub and stub axle and so on off as well to pass the broken bit out
>of the axle.
>
Unless you've got a Rover/ENV diff in which case you remove both halfshafts and remove the diff. They usually snap at either end, where the splines start. if it's the hub end you can take it out by just removing the drive flange. If it's the inboard end you remove the diff.
Alex