Removing Front Axels

[Al]

Did you spray them with a penetrant? Take a smaller hammer and hit them as 
flush as possible. Not hard, but with lots of repitions, like a small jack 
hammer. If you mess up the inside of the bolt, Irwin makes an extractor that 
grips the outside of the bolt. It looks like a socket except the threads 
inside are a reverse spiral. 
http://www.irwin.com/tools/browse/screw-bolt-extractors/bolt-extractors

Al

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Caouette
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 11:41 AM
To: quattro
Subject: Removing Front Axels

Folks,

After 190,000 miles the Avant needs new boots and rebuilding of front
axels.....if I can get the inner CV bolts loosened!!

Any tricks about how best to accomplish this...before I bugger the star
bolts.....would be appreciated.

Has anyone ever applied heat (aka torch) sparingly??

I know I risk a) fire and b) ruining the inner CV and perhaps transmission
seals at the flanges....but what do you do when you can't get them to budge
with impact driver or 1/2 inch breaker bar. I fear that I've already messed
up one bolt on the passenger side. I suspect drilling it out will really be
a pain.
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