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Does anyone know what is involve in replacing the rear outer CV joint?

thank you

I think I found away to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz0x6LNo6HY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTooPkTAmIk&NR=1

any thought? Has anyone tried this on a Subaru axle?

That was a cool idea.

IDK about rear cv joints but the CV joint on the front on my FWD SUBARU has a roll pin not a C-clip so those videos are useless. (To me any way.)

As he said a Toyota MR2 not Subaru.

It is not that hard to do, but I would advise a roll pin punch.

But I said, for a front outer CV joint on a FWD subaru. So correct me if I'm wrong.

Are you by any chance referring to the inner CV joint and how it attached to the tranny? that is the only roll pin I am aware of with dealing with axles and CV joints on Subaru.

Sorry my mistake. You are correct it was inner.

That would work on a subaru too.

The subaru inner cvs come off the axle shaft with a circlip inside the inner cv. First you take the boot back a bit, then there is a wire clip holding the inner cv's inner hub into the cv"s outer housing. Take the wire clip out with a screwdriver and then the axle and inner part of the cv comes out of the inner cv"s outer housing. Now you can get at a circlip that needs circlip pliers, it's right on the end of the axle and once you have taken that off the cv's inner part slides off the axle.

Then you can use the pipe trick.

The pipe trick works well. I've had to do it before.