Removing Front Axels

[John Lagnese]

Vise grips as tight as possible and then hit the vise grips with a
hammer. This has never failed me.

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
On Behalf Of Paul Caouette
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 5:42 PM
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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