Use a puller or put a hammer over the axle in the hub grab a sledge hammer and wack it until it comes out once it slides out grab a sock and a vice grips have a friend hold the vice grips held on to the socket and wack it out the rest of the way :)
@@DJ264enman If you have to remove the bearing anyways, I would say apply heat with a burner. Maybe that can help. Otherwise: screw the nut on, and turn it back just a little so the axle can move. Then use the biggest heaviest hammer you van find and hammer the living crap out of it.
Yeah I got it after lots of heat smashing with a sledgehammer and hurting my hands for 2 afternoons. 200k northeast driven miles, that shit was welded in there with salt flux :/
@@DJ264enman Use a puller or put a hammer over the axle in the hub grab a sledge hammer and wack it until it comes out once it slides out grab a sock and a vice grips have a friend hold the vice grips held on to the socket and wack it out the rest of the way :)
@@dokterkarel it does take 10 minutes if you don’t live in the rust belt. Just drop the swaybar and the rear bit of exaust if driver side and unbolt and give the axle some tappy tap taps with an extension or something and it plops out
hey I'm doing the exact same shit to my car but I cannot get the star bolts off its got 160k and the bolts never been off I bought the star size 10 and got 3 out of 6 and other 3 bolts are feeling stripped how do I get them off I need help PLEASE , another solution please there's too much play in the star socket now
I really don't like how you work on that car. You pull on the exhaust system, not caring that you are damaging it. You touch the disk brakes with greasy hands instead of applying the hand brake. I wouldn't let you work on my car if you payed me.
What do you do play video games and live with your mom be a man and if you looked this video up is because you cant afford a mechanic and dont knoe how to do it yourself
You completely missed out the hardest part, getting the old axle out!
Use a puller or put a hammer over the axle in the hub grab a sledge hammer and wack it until it comes out once it slides out grab a sock and a vice grips have a friend hold the vice grips held on to the socket and wack it out the rest of the way :)
Air Hammer
@@Pengy8027 hey man, that was a run-on sentence (never do it again)
@@liamepple1260 tell me you read it without taking a breath 😂
without telling me you read it without taking a breath 🫁
air hammer
one thing that I would recommend is to cover with coper lubricant the joint that goes into wheel hub, so that next time it is not that hard to remove.
hispanics are the best foocken mechanics alive. ive worked with several and they are geniuses. cheers man!
Always making it look so easy in the video, yet here I have been hammering this shaft for 1 hour in order to get it out. It's still in there...
any tricks you can share. I'm currently at war with mine. 6 bolts are out it just wont come out of the hub
@@DJ264enman If you have to remove the bearing anyways, I would say apply heat with a burner. Maybe that can help. Otherwise: screw the nut on, and turn it back just a little so the axle can move. Then use the biggest heaviest hammer you van find and hammer the living crap out of it.
@@DJ264enman its cause u need a jaw puller. they sell it at any local autozone
Yeah I got it after lots of heat smashing with a sledgehammer and hurting my hands for 2 afternoons. 200k northeast driven miles, that shit was welded in there with salt flux :/
@@DJ264enman Use a puller or put a hammer over the axle in the hub grab a sledge hammer and wack it until it comes out once it slides out grab a sock and a vice grips have a friend hold the vice grips held on to the socket and wack it out the rest of the way :)
10 min to install maybe more like 10 hours to remove
nah, just read his description: "It only takes 10 minutes to take the axle out."
right?
@@dokterkarel it does take 10 minutes if you don’t live in the rust belt. Just drop the swaybar and the rear bit of exaust if driver side and unbolt and give the axle some tappy tap taps with an extension or something and it plops out
If you live in the rust belt, use heat
@@Re_Kitty mine had little to no rust, yet I had to smash it with a sledgehammer for 10 minutes to get it to move a few millimeters.
@@dokterkarel well there’s you’re 10 minutes then XD
thanks carols for your expertise. you speak BMW fluently. your vid helped me a lot. I waz hug up, but you cleared the way..mucho grassy.......
Great video, anyone with basic skills will understand what you have to do. All those complaints can suck it.
have you actually done this yourself?
Anton G guaranteed he has never done it because they're an absolute nightmare to remove from the hub
how much labor are you charging to customer for 15 minutes of labor?
you are Awesome!! your video helped me a lot thanks for doing the video!
Que hermoso golpeas el eje de tracción 😂😂😂 ya se donde trabajas para nunca ir 🤧
This is fine on newer, non-rusty BMW, not E30 in NY where they salt the roads.
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Nice video Carlos! Thanks!
Thank you, I will be replacing the rear wheel bearing on my e46 and have to remove the axel. I couldn’t find a how to reinstall the axel.
Thanks for the video guys!
One detail missed. What's the nut size??
overtime he hit the end of the axle w the Hammer I cringed
What size socket for the hub bearing end?
Ross Canpolat it's a 30mm 12 point
Attempting this very soon.
what were the symptoms of that axle being bad?
+Nicholas Candelas noise and vibration.
@@haycalldo you remember what kind of noise?
not beginning no ending.. sigh.. .. but good middle portion.
What size nut socket u use for a bmw 745li?
it would've been great if they showed hot to REMOVE it first then put one one.
erickrayos well he showed enough to were if you have commen sence u will get it
Juan, no offence, but you obviously never had to remove one
Took me 2 days yo get mine out left a massive puller on it over night and a lot of heat and still had to beat the shit out of it with a sledge hammer
Es lo mismo para el BMW, 2010 128I???
Si
Gracias Carlos
How much did labor cost
160 Dollars
hey I'm doing the exact same shit to my car but I cannot get the star bolts off its got 160k and the bolts never been off I bought the star size 10 and got 3 out of 6 and other 3 bolts are feeling stripped how do I get them off I need help PLEASE , another solution please there's too much play in the star socket now
Use Vise-Grip.
should be a e12 socket
What axle did you use
Rebuilt
Que dado uso para quitar los tornillos del diferencial
36
Good vid, Thanks
When you take it out, do you have to replace the differential fluid, or do you just make sure the new axle is lined and put it in?
You dont have to replace the gear oil. Unless you want to or its time.
You dont show how to remove it. Between removal or install, the removal is what people want to see.
The rack is handy..
Need to show how to removal first c'mon man!
You could at least show us how to remove the axle it's not installing it
I really don't like how you work on that car. You pull on the exhaust system, not caring that you are damaging it. You touch the disk brakes with greasy hands instead of applying the hand brake. I wouldn't let you work on my car if you payed me.
wojtek86 not to mention he tighened that axle nut HARD with an impact. Good luck getting that off next time
What do you do play video games and live with your mom be a man and if you looked this video up is because you cant afford a mechanic and dont knoe how to do it yourself
@@danielsherman9116 and nevermind the fact that you'll ruin the threads of both the nut and the axle that way.
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No mames tu English esta peor que Los chinos
Thanks for the video guys!