97 camry driveshaft

HAHA! Removing it by hand. That's funny. That bastard is seized like no other!!! By hand.... Har.

Anyway, the way I handle those things is with an air hammer and a helper. Grab a big ass pry bar and have someone pry on the axle while your beat the everloving sh** out of the cast iron bracket with the hammer. It'll come very very very slowly, but it will come. Sometimes even that doesn't work, so you'll have to just replace everything from the inner CV joint out by removing the inner boot and seperating it at the joint. Those are my suggestions, post if you need more info.

They are bad news once rusted-in. Did you leave the penetrating oil over-night? You may need to apply heat as a last resort,...might stuff the bearing tho.

Jason

This drive shaft was difficult to remove for me also. I found. if I tapped with a brass drift for long enough on the step between the centre bearing support and the allen head screws it eventually came free. Take care to support the inner drive shaft end when it comes out of the transaxle case, to avoid damaging the oil seal.

I reassembled it with a thin film of anti-seize compound inside the bearing support.

Geoff

Thanks for the suggestions...I finally did get it off but it was a tough son of a bitch. Since I have purchased rebuilt shafts I wasn't too concerned about the bearing on the old shaft. I basically used an air hammer and took my frustrations out directly on the bearing and **EVENTUALLY** it broke free.