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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jc95gt" data-source="post: 530022" data-attributes="member: 10713">well today me and my dad were going to finish chagning my axles since one was bent...and another problem came alongwe needed to get the pinion shaft out so wecould push the axles into the differential to remove the "C" clamps and couldnt get the pinion shaft out...we were lost for a good 15 minutes until we realized the pinion shaft bolt broke off which is very common and a huge pain in the a**the only way to get it off while the differential is under the car is with a kit like this and you can take the whole rear down to work on this without removing the axles so we were screwed...this is the kit you will need if this ever happens to you, i got mine from matco tools<a href="http://www.etoolcart.com/fabbri-differential-pinion-shaft-lock-bolt-extractor-kit.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.etoolcart.com/fabbri-differential-pinion-shaft-lock-bolt-extractor-kit.aspx</a>so my dad called up his buddy the drives a matco tool truck, he travels all over maryland and we were fortunate enough that he was about 20 minutes from my house when we called, so the matco driver came all the way to my house for a personal delivery since we couldnt go to him because my car was in pieces lol, so that was a huge help...<img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/jaymes2191/pinionshaftbolt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />after we got the tool, the bolt came out in a matter of 5 minutes lol, sooooooo easy with the toolthen we started on the assembly of the new axles/bearings/seals and all that was a cake walkthen we knew we needed a new bolt so we had to get a friend to lend us their car so we could go to plaza ford and get a new pinion shaft bolt and they had 3 in stock...woohoo, so we get there and paid 3.18 for a new bolt and finished up the job w. easei was going to take pictures of this whole process and what we did and make a "how to" but had no time because i had to be at work at 3 lol so i didnt get a chance to take picturesbut my rear is back together and no more squeaking while i dirve and no more wheel wobble its perfect lolwe were in such a hurry but when we got to ford they had a GT500KR SUPER SNAKE so i had to take a few quick shots lol<img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/jaymes2191/gt500kr1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/jaymes2191/gt500kr2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s194/jaymes2191/gt500kr3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />im just happy its all over and it works good now minus the fact its a 7.5" rear w. the t-loc cause it doesnt have clutches in it hahahabut ill do all that another time</blockquote>