It does not happen often, but when you need to rebuild your font axle, its good to know how it all comes apart. Recently Metal Tech upgraded our front end, which involved rebuilding the front axles with longer shafts. While we where there, Mark demonstrated how to disassemble the front axles. The typical IFS method involves duct tape and a chop saw followed by cutting and throwing away the shaft. Instead of cutting, Mark went old school, calling on trick from the cruiser guys that uses a little kinetic energy release the shaft from the CVC.
How-To Disassemble An FJ Cruiser Axle Shaft from Hula Betty on Vimeo.
For the price of some pipe or tubing you have laying around save yourself the cost of replacing the shaft or rounding up a chop saw.
[...] on the new suspension. BTW: if you are going to do the install yourself here is a good video on taking apart the FJ Cruiser half shafts. Mark uses an old school FJ trick rather than cutting the axel as TC recommends. here is how my [...]