96 f-150 driveshaft removal

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mjs - 10 Dec 2006 16:49 GMT

96 F150, 5L, 5 speed manual, 2wheel drive. 2 piece driveshaft.
Rear shaft rear yoke unbolts from pinion ok, front yoke connects to
slip-joint (no splines visible, smooth w/grease fitting) directly
behind center/carrier bearing. Slip moves back and forth nicely but
will not slide off, is there something holding it in? I can't see
anything, and am afraid to force it. u-joints are bad and I need to get
the shaft off (work truck)
please help, thanks

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Steve Barker LT - 10 Dec 2006 19:47 GMT

It will pull off if you pull hard enough. Best though, is to drop the
carrier, take the whole assembly to the bench, and replace all 3 joints.

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> 96 F150, 5L, 5 speed manual, 2wheel drive. 2 piece driveshaft.
> Rear shaft rear yoke unbolts from pinion ok, front yoke connects to
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> the shaft off (work truck)
> please help, thanks

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Whitelightning - 10 Dec 2006 20:44 GMT

> It will pull off if you pull hard enough. Best though, is to drop the
> carrier, take the whole assembly to the bench, and replace all 3 joints.

Don't forget to mark everything so it goes back the same way, ie the
orientation of the parts to one another. Its balanced as an assembly.
As for pulling the two shafts apart, you can just pull like the dickens, or
you can use a pair of water pump pliers also known as channel locks and take
the collar off first, and then it will almost fall apart.
Whitelightning

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Steve Barker LT - 11 Dec 2006 02:55 GMT

The newer ones don't have the collar. Most of the ones I've done have a
rubber bellows type boot you just unclamp one end of it and pull the slip
yoke off.

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>> It will pull off if you pull hard enough. Best though, is to drop the
>> carrier, take the whole assembly to the bench, and replace all 3 joints.
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> the collar off first, and then it will almost fall apart.
> Whitelightning

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Whitelightning - 11 Dec 2006 03:54 GMT

> The newer ones don't have the collar. Most of the ones I've done have a
> rubber bellows type boot you just unclamp one end of it and pull the slip
> yoke off.

I didn't think ford went to that bellows arrangement till around 2002.

Whitelightning

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