Well I wasn't joking!!!   You know for all the people that deny it, I bet EVERYONE who has ever really worked on their car on this list has used a bigger hammer at one point or another on a CV, and hit on the shaft with something steel, not with a soft spacer or soft drift, and maybe if it came to it, probaby applied a little heat to the inner race as well.  I'm not afraid to admit I have, and do when circumstances call for it.  What do I usually do, use my press, I built it myself BTW, 30 ton jack, frame I machined and welded myself.  Anyone who knows me knows I'm sort of a fanatical freak purist when I need to be, but sometimes a good ole big hammer does the job.  It is one of those things though, if I booger up a bus or vanagon driveshaft I have a pile of others to go to when needed, in fact I've got sets off an automatic '87, and an '87 syncro already rebuilt sitting around with Kroger bags on the ends from when I parted the cars.  If you don't have said pile, you
 should probably do something more technical minded, the cheapo puller will generally work fine.
    Oh and FWIW on VW FWD shafts the the "hidden" internal circlip I've never really come up with any way on the outboards to remove them aside from cutting off the boot, putting the shaft in a vice and giving the the edge of the CV a good whack with whatever is about, a brass hammer if it is handy, but you know it never seems that I'm doing these things at home where I have my tools...

  John

neil <goofymuso@YAHOO.CA> wrote:
  Hi all. :)

Just to be clear, I was joking when I wrote "a bigger
hammer?" as a solution for removing a stuck inboard
CV.

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