Most likely you have a center support bearing in the middle of the drive shaft. If you do, forcing the rear flex disc off of the rear differential flange you are shoving the whole back of the drive shaft into the center support bearing. Which is a big bearing supported in rubber suround. So you may have damaged or torn the center support rubber or popped that bearing out of the surround rubber. In which case you can just push the bearing back inside the rubber suround but if you damaged the rubber surround then....welp your gona need a new center support housing with rubber. If you loosen the 2 bolts that hold the center support in place then you would easily be able to collapse/slide the back half of the driveshaft into the front half giving you plenty of room to easily slide that flex disc out without all that wrestling. And hopefully not damaging the center support bearing rubber surround. If you happen to have a one piece drive shaft then disregard everything ive wrote here.
Thank you for the video. A massive help to me as I’m a novice. Nicely detailed. I will be doing this job on my1997 slk. Ps. Could you let me know what type of grease is needed. I read somewhere that it’s a pacific type Best wishes Daren. Uk 🇬🇧
@@ukiarni5011 mine wasn't that worn out, but if you saw my video you can see how the cracks are developing, I dont think you will feel any symptoms as such, the coupling near the gearbox can make a clanking noise when engaging the gearbox.
