HOW TO REMOVE A SEVERELY STUCK CV AXLE / CV JOINT FOR CHEAP | DIY CUSTOM REMOVAL TOOL - WORKS! 

WENT TO ACE HARDWARE AND SPENT ABOUT $33 TO MAKE THIS OUT OF ALL THREAD AND A FEW PLUMBING FITTINGS. I ALREADY HAD A GOOD PAIR OF VICE GRIPS BUT THEY WERE THERE FOR SALE FOR $15 TWO HITS AND IT WAS OUT!!! AFTER BENDING 2 CROWBARS AND DESTROYING TWO FLAT HEAD SCREWDRIVERS THAT I USED AS WEDGES. ALSO PUT A SMALL CRACK IN THE TRANSMISSION HOUSING WHICH I COATED WITH JB WELD THE ORIGINAL FORMULA. HEART ITS STRONGER THAN THE QUICK DRY. 100 THUMBS UP TO THIS GUY AND HIS HELP SOLVING THIS PROBLEM!!!

Did presenter really start by saying " I want to show my little tool " --- Very funny. Excellent video. Thanks

Just wanted to say thank you. We have been hammering and pulling at that damn thing for 2 weekends. Rented a slide hammer from Advance Auto Parts and 3 racks back and it popped right off. You are a lifesaver!!!

Worked Great! Thank You! Lowes has Vice Grips with 7/16" SAE threading , HomeDepot has Metric, both stores only have SAE All Thread, so go to lowes for the Vice Grips and 3 ft of All Thread. An 18" piece of pipe from plumbing worked. Took me only two slides of the pipe to remove the stuck CV with your tool. Prior I had spent over an hour failing the removal with various pry bars. Your video is awesome! Thanks again!

I designed my own using a 10lbs weight and scrap metal based off your video... Got it 2nd pull!! Thank you sir! I wasted hours prying away for nothing. This really works people!! 👍👍👍

Man after having this problem and trying different methods for a month I couldn't take it out. I watched the video and was very skeptical since nothing ever work from RU-vid so I just decided to give it a chance. I spend about $30 on getting the bise grips and the rest of the things. The first 2 tries it slipped. At the last attempt it came out. I couldn't believe it! Thank you for your help!!

This totally works. I worked for days to remove an axle using a crowbar. After watching this video, I went to a hardware store, built a similar tool, and with one try the axle joint popped out. Wow! Thanks for sharing!

My name is Brenda Standifer this is my mother-in-law's computer. Just had to say thanks for posting this. Second day trying for my husband and I. Even my dad and one of his buddies tried with no luck. Built this and had to drill a hole in axel joint to get enough of a grip with my vice then It came right off!!

I used your idea on my Mercedes and it took one wack and it was out, you saved me a lot of cash! Thanks.

Thanks so much for the snap ring lesson. I accidentally over-extended my right CV axle on my FWD 3000GT, pulling the TJ out of the housing and tearing the boot requiring me to rebuild the inner boot and joint. But getting the CV spline to separate from the trans was a multi-hour ordeal. Once I understood the need for sudden or "shock" force instead of gradual force, the solution was at hand. I grabbed my pickle fork (because my large screwdriver was bending too much), wedged it between the tranny and a lip on the housing, gave it a few good smacks with my palm before I saw it move, and it finally broke free with a couple more smacks. Much obliged, Marco.

I concur with the first hit comments. This worked, plus I had an excuse to buy another set of vice-grips. I wracked my brains for a couple hours before I saw this video. I used a bunch of large 1/2 drive sockets stuffed into each other for weights to slide along the threaded rod. Tape is a must! Great video post! Thanks!!!

I built this for under $5 and pulled my stuck CV axle in 4 whacks. GREAT vid and idea!

I was able to remove the "tulip" from the transmission using a cable and a trailer hitch ball assembly. The cable was a spare from my garage door lift spring safety cable kit. It was small enough to fit behind the "tulip". I removed the rubber boot from the inner end of the shaft leaving just the inner "tulip". The cable has a loop at each end so I inserted one end through the loop and placed it behind the "tulip". I wrapped the middle of the cable around the heavy trailer hitch assembly and in two tries the "tulip" popped out!! Thanks for the inspiration.

Worked like a charm got the list below from Lowes for 6.00 used my own vise grips parts list: 69888 3/8 x 16 3 ft all thread 2.90 12109 1/2x 5 nipple 2.32 63303 3/8 nits (2) .12 EA 68884 3/8 fender washer (3) total cost 6.00. Put the pipe nipple then 3 fender washer then locked the 2 nuts of the end used this to adjust the vise grip from the end with a rachet. clamped on then pulled with 2 tries works great

Man, I can't thank you enough. Being trying to get the cv axle off of my 2011 Hyundai Sonata for a whole week. I was just about to put everything back together and take it to the dealer. Then I found your youtube channel via Google. Within 10 minutes (after I got back from Home Depot) I had that S.O.B off!!!! I bought a pair of Milwaukee vise grips, 3ft of 7/16 threaded rod, 3 washers (i used various sizes), 3 - 7/16 nuts, and (2ft piece of 3/8 galvanized pipe with a floor mount attachment) to use as my slide hammer. Using the tape was genius... Thanks again Marco.

Was just trying to change a CV axle on a Honda Fit, and was having this same issue. Let me tell ya, they don't make these things to come out easy, that's for sure. Anyone whose ever put a regular socket onto an impact gun knows exactly what I'm talking about (we've all done it, don't kid yourself!). These obnoxious little rings are quite the marvel of engineering. It's quite amazing how such a tiny little piece of metal can cause so much of a headache... but they do work. Too well, in fact. Anyway, after looking at the physics of it, it makes sense. Only a solid in-line knock without canted leveraging will get this to work because of the equal pressure applied throughout the ring simultaneously. The only other way to get it off is to destroy the transmission housing because they make the rings out of a stronger steel than the housing metal. This video is a WONDERFUL tip. Thanks for sharing. Mechanics FTW.

Huge thanks!!!! Spent hours trying everything and then seen this video. I was able to use a dent puller and the thread was perfect for my vice grips. Literally 4 whacks and it came out.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, it worked on the third pull. A big thank you for posting, this is the second one I have done on my truck the first was 9 hours to get off this one 15 minutes and $45. Well worth the money. Now I have the tool.

I made a homemade slide hammer with vise grips and some threaded rod. It worked like a charm. CV axle popped out on the first hit. Thanks for the tip!

This isn't a new set up. Sorry, to be the Debbie downer but I made one of those in 1998. It works awsome for many different things. Glad you figured out how to fix your cv axle problem.

Just made your tool for a stuck cv joint on a VW Beetle. I had to add a little weld to the edge and once I did it worked like a charm. Thanks for the video.

literally just put this together and used it now. Came over to the garage computer and had to type a Big THANKS to ya!

I used it and it works!! I don't have pipe i just used some sockets and tape them together. make sure you pull straight and straight off

I tried getting my drivers side CV axle out of my car that I had tapped in with a maul. I tried for many hours with crobars and stanley super wonder bar (the CV tool that attaches to the slide hammer wouldn't fit all the way around it). THIS WORKED WITH NO EFFORT AT ALL! I was skeptical it would come out with this invention because of how hard I tried with other methods, but I pulled it once with about 20% of my might and it came out the first try! It even pulled out the whole inner axle from the other side, it was stuck so hard. At that point I held the axle with one hand and kept hitting the stuck CV end away from the axle and after hitting it and rotating it slowly in circles (about 10 or 20 revolutions) it finally disconnected from the shaft! Make sure that your replacement part looks EXACTLY like the old one. My new replacement that got stuck was just a solid -looking cylinder instead of one with indents all around. It was .002" too large for the gears.

Thank you sooo much bro! I built it with everything from true value and put it on the cv hub and got it on the FIRST try! Thank you a million bro! Your a genius!

I owe you a drink buddy!, welded some round stock to a vise grip and an old sprocket, used an old hitch as the hammer. 10 minutes of welding 2 hits popped right out. Cheers!

Awesome fix for this problem. I used a cheap o mini sledge as my weight, worked like a champ. Thanks for the ideas

Success here too! Bought a new set of Vise Grips (a regular pair and a tiny needle-nose pair) for $17, a 3-foot length of 7/16-14 all-thread and a couple of nuts and fender washers, a 12" piece of 3/8" galvanized pipe and a floor-mount cap for it. No extra weights needed. One hit was all it took!

I will also attest to this. Changing axles on my 2009 acura mdx. everything on front passenger took about 30 mins...up until I had to seperate the axle from the intermediary axle. spent 7 hours with pry bars, extensions, screw drivers, mallets, converting to religion, sacrifices, etc. Friend built me one of these from scrap parts he had. 10 minutes later it was done. Thank you!!

Excellent advice! My friend and I have used this technique with great success on not one but three stuck inner CV joints. Many thanks.

I am trying this tomorrow evening. Good idea.

I had to remove a CV axle. Saw your vid. Made my own and work on first pull after trying a pri bar For 30 min with no luck. Thanks for the help.

Nice idea Marco. Threaded rod is made from steel - but sometimes zinc-plated to resist corrosion. Rod is NOT "zinc". Far too soft for making a rod.

Thanks a lot for the knowledge, one for the memory bank. I had same problem a few years ago on a 99 Kia believe it or not. It was impossible to pry out. Another mechanic trashed the tranny prying it out. 5 star video here Marco.

If you can drill a hole in cv bucket use a bolt or d shackle through link in chain then through hole drilled wrap chain around strong handle and jerk hard it may take a few tries but it works

That shit work with cheap ass Walmart vice grips. I was on the second day trying to pry my axle off. It was to the point where my neighbors wanted to give it a shot. This dude look like Shaq O Neil couldn't get it to budge. But that shit took bout 10 minutes to build. And 1, 2,3. clop. Three seconds man our you kidding me. Thanks a lot.

thanks a bunch, just had this prob w my 2000 Tiburon. went to home depot got supplies for $25. 3 strikes n it was out. worked like a charm.

I just took some threaded pipe, one inside another, and screwed flanges on both ends. Viola, slide weight. Anyway, works like a dream, just be ready for that transmission fluid. Thanks a ton, Marco!

After watching this I welded my new Mennards visegrips adjuster screw to my slide hammer and in 15 blows it popped out . I did weld blobs on the stuck shaft(for grip) so vise grips would not and did not slip, excellent. Thanks.

I just yanked mine out in a similar way. Thanks for the ideas. I basically used chain link the right size to put on the vise grip screw, clamped on the cv joint and taped to secure.......then using my come-along cable system. A few good yanks and bamm!

been trying for a day and a half with no luck. saw this video and made one at ace hardware for $55. worked like a charm on sevond pull! thank you for the advice. much appreciated. returning all material for refund 😁

Thank you soo much was working on this cv joint for hours your awesome dude

After working my arms to death trying to pry a stuck CV axle out of our 2000 Dodge Neon I built a chain type of "slide hammer." It did NOT work. Before I went back out to try more I got on You Tube and found your video. THANK YOU! Three slams and it was out! What a relief! I did make a little modification. I put a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe over the all-thread rod so the threads of the pipe and the threads of the rod wouldn't rub against one another. Anyway, everything worked GREAT! I actually used an old rusty vice grip I had in the garage. LOL

Dude, had the same problem b/c I put a shitty Chinese axle into my Tacoma. Two hours fighting, prying, hammering.. I watched your video, looked through my garage, about 45 minutes later: Presto! One shot! Thanks Man!!

This is shear genius we got a tool from auto zone and fought with it for 4 hours trying to make it work We made your tool and got them out in 30 seconds you are a genius

Had a severely stuck CV axle on my wife's 2005 Toyota 4Runner. Used a pry tool and a large crowbar from Harbor Freight with no good. Then I went to AutoZone to rent a slide hammer with the adapter. It was useless. So I went to Home Depot. They only have the Husky and Milwaukee brands for the curve vice grips. I choose the more expensive Milwaukee with a 7/16" screw at the end. Then I bought a 16 inches 7/16" threaded rod (zinc finish was the cheapest), 3 washers and a 4-pack 7/16 nut (used only 2). I removed the weight hammer of the Autozone rented slide hammer and used it on my device. The Milwaukee vice grip was so useless and keep on sliding out. Went back to Harbor Freight and bought the "Bremen" brand vice grip $5+ with 20% discount. This vice grip was amazing. Third pull was magic. This invention is amazing. Marco, you are a genius.

Hey this is John B you don't need to make that all you got to do is jack your car up with a good jack crowbar stick in between transmission push toward the transmission from the stuck CV axle and it comes apart

Today I used pliers as a wedge between the CV axle casing and the axel shaft on the passenger side, used a 5 gallon bucket to balance the weight of a 2x4 about 6 feet long, one side of the 2x4 was pressed up against the pliers handle holding them in place and I smacked the other side of the 2x4 with a 30lbs dumbell and knocked that CV axel right out. He is very right! Pulling force will not pull it out, I ratchett strapped one side to CV joint and the other side to a near by street light post cemented into concrete and that thing did not budge! These ratchett straps have bent solid steel in past adventures. But I read a form saying shock force knocks them out with about 10-15lbs of weight. I instantly thought of the contraption I mentioned and wacked it with double the weight and it popped out first try. Good luck to you and whatever you come up with. Desperation is the mother of creation. Good luck

Man what an ordeal. Nothing worse than Smacking that pry bar with the old short-handle sledge, rightly expecting a nice clean pop & release, & getting absolutely zilch for your effort. Whack the pry-bar several more times right there in the sweet spot, next to the fulcrum point, still nothing - & then you know your in for some FUN. Stupid c-clips. UGGGGHHHHH... I built one very similar to yours from threaded bar stock & a harbor freight cheapy dent puller slide hammer. welded thethreaded stock to the end of the slide hammer, but instead of vice grips, I welded the cut off open end of a combo wrench to the other end of the threaded bar stock, right on the tip & at a 90 degree angle to the bar stock, just right for slipping between the bearing cage & the differential face where the splined part of the axle goes in. 2-3 good smacks & out they pop. But sometimes it likes to slip off the cage, though, & I gotta hose-clamp it to the side, which is where your vicegrips approach reigns supreme! gonna build one like that, next. ;)

Hi you can use hammer part from regular slide hammer and heavy duty hose clamp instead of tape. Good idea on using vise grip.

That`s using your noggin. Nice idea. I think the problem with pry bars is that it applies sideways force which wont allow the clip to release on the opposite side. With your approach the force is straight back which allows the clip to release smoothly.

Im gonna bet this method is going to work for my 2006 mini cooper. Ive spent hours trying different methods to get the cv axle out. Nothing has worked. I can't wait to give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes when i'm done.

Thx a bunch it worked on my 2005 Mazda 6.

Unusually, I find that a 57mm spanner fits on both sides of the cup, which pulls the drive out evenly. The usual way is with a sliding hammer, which takes longer than the spanner method. It all depends if you can access the cup easily. I have also used (with some sucess) a 50mm crows foot on two long 1/2" extension bars. If you have to use a lot of force your doing it wrong.

Hey don't be embarrassed about the jury rig. Whatever works!! Thx for the advice.

We recently did this with a jaguar. The only improvement was using a hose clamp instead of tape to secure the viceGrip in the closed position. 3 whacks and it was out. Good idea.

About to try this for my Honda Civic 2018 si passenger side. I spent all day with a pry bar trying and no luck, hopefully this works tomorrow morning as I gotta leave back to college tomorrow night.

Take a 6 ft 1/8 wire with two wire clamps. Wrap one end around the cv joint a couple of times and clamp it. Make a loop on the other end that fits into an ax handle. Put the ax through it and swing away. The boot will probably survive. It is the most incredibly simple and cheap way this job is possible

I sure hope this works! My husband has been trying for a week now to get cv joint removed from transmission. Will let you know if he has success after using your idea. Wish us luck!

great video helped me fix my first car next video I'd recommend filming with the camera sideways

freaken genious man thank you for sharing lets see some future uploads of more ideas

This video saved my life thank you so much for sharing your wisdom 10 out of 10 would recommend

I had a volkswagon jetta about a month ago that had a stuck cv joint the exact same sticking situation. I used the exact same thing with the exception of the slide hammer. I used a double headed axe head. I slid it twice and it popped right out. I will give you a little hint about using pry bars in the back side. when you pry on the hub it tends to try to come out cocksided thus binding even more with the tension spring. if you are lucky you might get it but most likely won't. Don't waste time trying to get in that tight place it;s not worth it. pull it from the front.

Thank you so much! This worked perfectly and saved me time and frustration.

that rod is the made of zinc. it's steel coated in zinc for a little corrosion resistance.

Master slide hamer kit has all the adapters you need to use any pair of vise grips you want

Damn It actually works, when I first watched this I didn't believe it would work but it actually did, thx and u should start selling this tool 👍🏻

I owe you one Marco works like a champ 1 slide and it was out Thanks Again

I’ve been stuck on the cv joint for the last day 😂 just saw this video so to Home Depot I go. Wish me luck

This looks genius!

oh and make sure you use a "curved jaw" vice grip and not "flat jaw" they make both, the flat jaw doesn't grip the bearing cup as well. thanks again Marco.

You made a slide hammer. They sell these on Amazon or any auto store. Slide hammer.

I spent several hours using the vice grips and also notched the CV and made zero progress.. I got a 12" x 1/8" dirll bit and drilled a hole through both sides of the CV. Widened out the holes to accept a 1/4-20 screw. put an eye bolt on the end of my slide hammer and ran the bolt through it. Came off in 4 hits. For me the vice grips were just not working.

After a pry bar didn't work for me, I hammered a pickle fork between there and it worked perfectly, so I didn't have to resort to your tool. Great idea though.

You can knock it out from the other side if you can get one of them out reach through with a rod of some kind and drive it out with a hammer.. They do it at the dealership.

Clear genius, thanks Mike.

Works like a champ. Thank you sir!!

I think they make a crowsfoot tool that threads onto a standard slide hammer that's made specifically for cv axles. I'm not trying to act like a "no it all" or anything, I've been looking for a way to get my cv shaft out for a month or so. I never even thought of using a slide hammer until I saw this video. If the crows foot don't work then I'm definitely using this method! Thanks for sharing, this will save me the $900 that the volvo dealership wants to charge!!

Hmmm. We tied my car down and tried to jerk the cv joint out and that didn't work either. My step brother has your same settup with the vice grips and that didn't seem to work either. Looks like we need to do some sort of version of this though.

Great idea but the rod is called allthread damit

Allthread!! Its all Thread :)

Bolt a chain around the cv housing and bolt the chain to the rented slide hammer. No need for a rod and vise grip and much cheaper.

It works I made one

Thank you for this video

I've got a 97 sephia and I have been trying and trying To get the drivers side out. It's been a nightmare. I just hope i haven't missed anything else up. But alright home made slide hammer. Gling to make one right now.

This looks awesome, but I have a perfectly good nearly brand new CV axle that is stuck in my transmission. I need to take the CV axle out to clean and paint and install the transmission.

Thank you for this idea. I couldn't get the left axle out of the differential on my daughter's '97 Camry. Prying was futile. I made a puller using vice grips, 3' of 7/16" all-thread, a.k.a., threaded rod, a couple of washers, a couple of nuts, and the 5 lb slider from my stud weld puller. Popped it out after three or four hard whacks. Did you grind the end of your all-thread to look like the bolt from the vice grips? At first I didn't, and I realized that it wasn't locking. I ground down the first quarter inch of the rod to a diameter of about 1/4", just like the original bolt. Worked like a charm. To make the job even more frustrating, the right spindle nut was frozen completely. Used a breaker bar and extension with my full 180 lbs on it. Nothin'. Put a jack under the breaker bar handle, and jacked it up until the breaker bar looked like a long bow. Nothin'. Used a punch and 5 lb mallet to try to pound the nut CCW. Did that for hours. Heat. PB Blaster. More pounding. Finally I had to cut through it with a 3" cutoff wheel. That took a couple of hours, too. A job that should and could take three or four hours wound up taking about 12. >:(

i usually just stick a pry bar on the plunger case and whack it out with a big heavy hammer..comes right off

Thx fluffy looks like your tool works i'm going to give it a try tomorrow.

Well , I owe you a beer or two. beautiful ! 7/16 x 14 threaded rod into a vice grip , that thing came right out !!! thanks !!!

For us we took a 3 foot steal bar welded a old steal sledge hammer head to it and then welded it to the cup and pulled it

My Volvo has been to 4 shops, all of them telling me they couldnt do it and suggesting a transmission shop. I told my local indie to please try this approach. Waiting for a call back. If this can't get it I'm truly screwed.

3/8" threaded rod

Thanks for the tips ,good video

Taking it off without destroying the boot is the real trick . But sometimes you have to get creative and make sacrifices

Did u try the fork / slide hammer CV . tool??

I ended up pulling spider gear pin to remove retainer clips off shaft ends to pull them out nothing else worked not even a 13lb slidehammer. i experimented with dilling instaal bolt to cv cup nope didn't move. chain around cup nope didn't move. so pop it open remove retainers an done.

Looks good but can't find 7/16" threaded rod. Haven't tried Lowe's yet. When wife gets home, I'll borrow her car again....

What about attaching a chain and give it a big whip.

Will that work on a Canam