2004 Toyota Solara L4 2.4L Front Driver & Passenger Side 6 Piece Drivetrain Kit TRQ PSA66392

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With the vehicle on the ground, I'm going to remove the center cap. On this one with a steel wheel, the center cap pops out from the center. From the front, just take a small flat-bladed screwdriver and pop it off. It'll come right off. If you've got an alloy wheel, you may need to take the wheel off. Pop the cap out, then put the wheel back on.

I like to have the wheel on the car, and the car on the ground to remove this axle nut. It's a lot easier, because these axle nuts have a lot of torque to them. Then trying to do it with the vehicle on the jack stand, and also you'd have to have some hold the brake to prevent it from spinning. This way, it's all on the ground. It's not going to move or rock back and forth. The axle nut is staked.

It doesn't have a cotter pin, so you need to take a flat-bladed screwdriver or the appropriate sized punch. This one is a little bit too big. I'm going to get a smaller one. I'm using a worn out, old, flat-bladed screwdriver, just kind of work it in here. You don't have to get it fully bent back out, just enough that you can get on there and then turn it. Just going to use a little ball pein hammer. The screwdriver might not be enough to do this. It's not really meant for it, but if you don't have the small chisel or punch to get in there. If you are just taking off this axle to get to some other component, you'd need to replace this axle nut. So since we're replacing the whole axle, it does come with a new axle nut. We're going to spray it with some rust penetrant to help it spin.

Use a 30mm, 12-point socket on the end of the breaker bar. This might take some force. Go. I'm just going to loosen it up. I'm just going to get it just so the end, just so the end is beyond the axle, and this should be so that when I've got it up in the air, it'll be easier to spin it off. I won't be fighting trying to spin the thing off the whole axle. Use the 21 mm socket and the breaker bar, loosen the lug nuts.

Raise and support the vehicle. Use the socket to remove the lug nuts that are loose. And remove the tire and wheel. It seized itself to the hub. Put a couple lug nuts on here. A couple threads down. This way, the wheel doesn't fall off. Going to hit it with a dead blow mallet right in the bottom. It takes a couple good blows with it. It'll come right off. Put this aside.

Take some rust penetrant. I'm going to spray it in here. There are splines in here for the axle. I want to make sure it's free. I'm going to tap it with my dead blow because I want to make sure the axle is going to move free before I loosen the lower ball joint and this is all moving around on me. It would be easier to free it up this way. Perfect. That's going to slide right out. We're just going to turn this out of the way so you can see what we're doing.

Need to remove these two nuts here, and the single bolt that's holding in the bottom of the ball joint. Spray some rust penetrant on here and the top off that bolt. Use a 17mm socket and the breaker bar. That one started. The other one and the bolt. There's the bolt. Going to use our pry bar to pop this ball joint out of the lower control arm. That way I'll have enough swing to slide this axle out of the back of the knuckle. I'm going to finish removing the axle nut. It's still a little stuck. I'm going to use the ratchet. Spin that right off. I'm going to pull the axle out. Actually pull the whole knuckle this way, and then pull the axle out. Let's see, just like that.

To remove the passenger side CV axle, you go underneath the vehicle. It is mounted in this little carrier-bearing pedestal. It's bolted to the side of the engine block. You should be able to unbolt these two bolts and the back separate, and the whole axle should go out this way. It looks pretty rusty. If it's seized up, I'm going to have to remove the whole pedestal and then press it out with the shop press. I'm going to spray some rust penetrant on here, and the back side of the bolts are exposed. Let's see if I can get to the top one.

Use a 14mm to break them free. Switch to the shorter ratchet space. That's one bolt. Looks like the bolt thread through the flange, so I'm going to put the bolts back in. Not thread them all the way in. Leave them kind of out.

I'm going to take a punch and put it on the end of the bolt and tap it in. This is so seized together, I'm going to end up taking this whole pedestal that's bolted to the back of the engine. I'm going to take it right off. It'll come out with the whole axle. It's held on with a 14mm bolt in the bottom and then two 14mm bolts at the top. Spray some rust penetrant. They are going into the aluminum engine block, so hopefully they're not seized in there. The top one, I really can't see. I'm going to kind of feel for it.

There's that one. It does sit on some little mounting, some very shallow mounting studs. I'm going to use a pry bar to just pry it off, just like that. I'm going to hit on it here and try and knock it out of the transmission. You might want to have a drain pan ready because some transmission fluid might leak out from here. I'm going to take a block of wood and put it up here and take my dead blow mallet and try and pop it out. There it goes. I'm going to now guide it out of the engine compartment. This is on this pedestal thing, so it's not supposed to come out with this, so you kind of have to wriggle it out, careful of this brake line.

Here's our whole axle assembly. This lower flange should be able to separate and allow me to press the whole axle assembly out. It's riding on a bearing that kind of sits inside of it here, but part of this flange here goes over the bearing. The bearing is made out of steel. This is steel. It seems to have rusted together. There is a seam here.

I just sprayed some rust penetrant in here to let it sit. I've got the bolts sort of threaded in, but not all the way. I'm going to try with a punch because I don't want to damage the head of the bolt. Put it right in here, and I'm going to hold the axle too at the same time. It's not clamped to my vice very well. It's kind of awkward. I'm going to try to tap the bolts on each side and try to get this flange to separate. Let's see. Add some fire and heat.

Try to get this lower collar separated from this upper collar because the bearing that this rides in is held in with this lower part. It's got threaded holes only on one side, so I'm going to try something. I was hitting on the top of these bolts. I'm going to take them both out, and then I'm going to thread them in from the bottom, and maybe it'll give me a little bit better surface to hit.

So I'm just going to thread them in and bring them up to protect the threads that are inside because this top part is smooth. This bottom part has the threads in it. I do that for both sides. We can use our punch. Go in here. Ball pein hammer. It's starting to separate. I'm just going to keep going back and forth. Spray a little bit of rust penetrant in here. There it is. Slide this out of here.

I'm going to remove this from the vice, this bracket, and we'll put that aside. We can reuse it and clean it up afterwards. Put our axle on the vice this way. There is a snap ring in here. So the end of the snap ring is right there. I'm going to use the pick to kind of work around it and clean any dirt and some rust penetrant. I'm going to use a small pry bar. Pop that out of there. Just work your way around it. Try and get it out. Just keep going that until you get the snap ring free. That's going to stay in there.

Now we need to get the bearing out of this. The outer bearing that's in here is steel. This part is steel, so they've rusted together. You could try to hit on these ears and separate it if you kind of go evenly and you had it in a vice, or if you supported these ears, you could to try to hit on the axle shaft in a vice and pop it out.

We're going to use the press because that's the best way to do it, and you can see this is why I removed the brackets that it sits nice and flush in the shop press, and hopefully this comes apart. We may need to apply some heat to this, but we're going to try it just now, using the press. And there it goes. So it's starting to move. It's just rusty. There it is. We can see our bearing. It's all rusty, and is stuck inside that housing. Get that snap ring off of here.

Here's our original CV axle. It came with a carrier bearing. Here's our brand new one from 1AAuto.com. There's no core charge on this. It's just ready to be installed. It has a new bearing already installed on it. It has this dust shield. Same exact design. Exact length. Comes with a new axle nut. This will great fit and work great on our vehicle. We want to reuse these parts. They've got some rust on them.

Just going to clean them up, and use some rust penetrant on them, some emery cloth, a wire brush, a pick, and just get them all cleaned up so I can reuse them, and they slide together easily. This should not have to be pressed onto the axle, so just going to make sure that the space in here where it rides is fairly clean. This is one actually isn't too, too bad. Just spray a little rust penetrant in here.

Take emery cloth, clean around it. I'm also going to clean the groove where the snap ring rides using this pick. Take a rag, just wipe it out. So just repeat that until you get the inside nice and clean. I'm going to clean the outside of this collar because it's got to go in here. Both sides have a lot of gunk in them. So I'll spray some rust penetrant. On this one, I'll use the wire brush and just clean it up. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you want to get most of the rusty stuff off so it'll slide together easily. We'll put that aside. I'm going to do the same for the inside of this one.

We're going to get our cleaned-up snap ring in place. Going to spread it over the axle. Bring it down over the bearing just like that. We'll take some white grease. So this part is going to go on over the bearing. There is an actual stop here, and the shiny metal part is where the bearing's going to sit. It should just slide right one once I've cleaned it up. It might go on a little tough because of the rust.

I'm going to use a small ball pein hammer and just tap it on. Kind of go around and do it evenly. It should be seated down there. We've got our snap ring. It does not have a beveled edge on either side, so we can go in any way, so I'm just going to get it lined up and get started on one edge. Just kind of push it in. I'm going to use the little pry bar. I've got part of the snap ring in the channel. I'm going to try and lock it in there by wedging it against it, and then I want to push this side in. And then hopefully it will allow me to go along and push it in because there's not a lot of spring tension to this, but enough. All right, so that's part of that. Just keep pushing that in. That one to get started. Just pull it into the groove.

Now what I want to keep doing is I'm going to keep that held there, and I can see where it's popping out, and push it in like that. Okay. Now it's starting to go in the groove. Make sure it's going in all along the edge, and use a little pry bar and just pry it up into the groove just like that. I'll spin this over. There we go. It's difficult to get this snap ring in here, and you're just going to have to work at it. But now it's in there. Now the bearing support.

This pedestal needs to go on to here. I'm going to take some more white grease just help it slide together. I did my best to clean up the rust. It might not slide together perfectly straight. There's a dowel pin here. It's going to line up with the dowel hole here. Just make sure those are lined up. It's chamfered. We're going to slide that together. Now I've got it close. I'm going to put the bolts in.

I'm actually going from the side. Start to get them caught. I'm going to use the bolts to pull this together. That one's started. I'm going to start at the other side. Just pull them down evenly. Now this is ready to go back into the car. I'm going to guide the CV axle into the engine compartment. To catch it on the rubber brake hose here. Lift your arm and grab it. Spin the bracket up. It does have some dowel pins, two in the top, that it needs to fit into. I also need to guide it into the transmission. We'll need it lined up. Get it lined up. It'll go right into the transmission.

There's no circlip on this so it should slide right into place. Now it'll sit like that. And the bearing pedestal is already lined up pretty well. Adjust it a little bit. Get it on the dowels. It should sit right over them just like that. I'm going to install the bolts. Going to tighten up these bolts. These are steel bolts going into the aluminum of the engine. I don't want to over tighten them. I'm just going to get them snug. Make them a little more, and that should do it.

Get the bottom one and then the top two. With the axle in place, we'll just take the axle nut off if you have it on there. I'll put that aside. Put the axle back into the hub. I'm going to push the hub out. Grab the axle. Turn it. Just kind of have to force it out, and you might have to turn this a little bit as you feed it in to catch. Just like that. I'm going to put the axle nut on here just loosely so that as I move this around, it doesn't pull all the way out. I'm using a large pry bar. This vehicle does have a new ball joint on it. It's pretty stiff. I've got it pushed up. I'm going to try to flip it over. There it is.

Reinstall all your ball joint hardware. Just going to tighten these down. I'll come back and torque them afterwards. Reinstall the bolts. I'm going to torque them to 76 foot pounds. Bring them down evenly. It clicks. It's torqued. I'm going to tighten up the axle nut. I'm not going to torque it yet, but I am just going to tighten it down. I'm going to just do this by hand at first. I'm going to use the axle nut socket, snug this down.

Now reinstall the wheel. Our steel wheel has the center cap off. If you've got an aluminum wheel, you want to make sure the center cap, which is the part that's right here, is removed, before you install it. Usually they need to pop out from behind because what we're going to do is tighten up the lug nuts, lower the vehicle down, and then torque this with the vehicle on the ground. The center cap can be installed afterwards. Start the lug nuts by hand and get them tight. We'll torque them with the vehicle on the ground. Torque the lug nuts in a cross pattern to 76 foot-pounds. Torque the axle nut to 217 foot-pounds. Since this doesn't have a cotter pin, we're going to stake it using a punch to bend the axle nut flange into this opening in the axle. You can reinstall the center cap. It just snaps into place. It'll be the same for an aluminum wheel. It might just be like this big, and you just pop it right in.

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Before I raise and support the vehicle. I'm going to remove the center cap with a flat bladed screwdriver. There's a little opening right here—just pop it right off. You don't have to take the lug nuts off on this one. I'll put that aside. I want to get to the axle nut, so I can spin it off. It's easier to spin the axle nut off with the wheel on the car and the vehicle on the ground so you're not trying to turn the wheel—otherwise you have to have someone step on the brake for you if the vehicle is up on jack stands.

This particular car has steel wheels. That center cap that pops out from the middle, or that pops out from the outside. If you had a vehicle that has alloy wheels, the center cap might be pushed into the center here. You would have to remove the wheel, pop the cap out, and then replace the wheel to get to this axle nut. This axle nut does not use a cotter pin. It's what they call staked. After it was torqued, it was then punched into this channel here and folded in. That way it can't spin off. To remove it, we're going to need to bend that out.

I'm going to clean some of this dirt and grime out of here. I'm going to switch this little punch. You really just need to get it up just enough so it will spin off the threads. Starting to go. It's not really pushed down very deep into this channel. I'm just going to try removing it with the socket. I'm going to spray some rust penetrant on here. I'm going to use a long breaker bar and a 12-point 30 millimeter socket. This is a large impact socket. It's actually an axle nut socket. Put on here. This is why you want the vehicle on the ground, the wheel, because it does take a lot of force to remove it. I'm just going to give it quite a few turns, but I'm not going to remove it all the way.

I just want to be able to spin it easier when the vehicle is up in the air. Now I need to break the lug nuts here. I'm going to use a 21 millimeter deep socket and my breaker bar. Try to loosen up these lug nuts. Now we can raise and support the vehicle, and remove the tire and wheel. I'm going to switch to just the socket and finish removing the lug nuts. The wheel is seized to the hub and rotor. This can be pretty common. I'm going to put a couple lug nuts back on, just lightly. Take our dead blow mallet, we're going to hit right on the tire. It should knock it free. Might take one hit, could take 10 hits, but just give it some good hits with a hammer and it should break free. The lug nuts hold it on there so the wheel doesn't fall off. Now you can take the wheel off and put this aside.

I want to move this axle nut out further because I want to make sure the axle is free from the hub inside, in the splines, before I start to remove other stuff. It's still wants to spin this. This is why you initially do it with the wheel on here. Kind of hold this with a pry bar. Sometimes if you put a lug nut on here, give it a little more secureness. That's good like that. Now I can spray some rust penetrant in here.

There are splines inside the hub where the axle sits, and they do look pretty rusty. I want to get some rust penetrant in there to let it soak. Take our pry bar off. I'm actually going to thread this lug nut down to keep the rotor from flopping around on me. I'm going to take our dead blow mallet. I'm going to tap the axle to try to break it free. Perfect. So, I know that when I undo the ball joint and I go to slide the axle out, it's going to come out of the hub. It's not going to fight me with this moving around because right now it's all nice and secure. It was easy to knock this axle free.

CV axles do have some in and out play on them, so that's what allowed me to do that. I'm going to remove this axle nut even more, but not completely. There we go, perfect. Don't have to go all the way, just a couple threads left. That way once I undo this it won't just like pop out, but that's nice and loose and I don't have to fight with it afterwards when everything else in the suspension is loose.

To unbolt the ball joint from the lower control arm, there's a single bolt here and two nuts here. I'm going to spray them with some rust penetrant. Start on the top with this bolt, and try to get these nuts here. These are 17 millimeter. I'm using a 17 millimeter socket extension and a long ratchet. That's not as bad. Now the bolt. I'm going to remove the bolt first, then I remove the two nuts. I'm going to use this pry bar and separate them.

I've got to pull the control arm down and get it off these studs that are on the ball joint. I'm just going to pry between the ball joint and the control arm, just pop them off, just like that. Now I'm going to undo the axle nut. I'm going to grab the hub rotor, the whole assembly. It's supported by the upper strut. At the same time I'm going to pull the axle out from the back and just kind of separate them. Just like that.

To give myself extra clearance I'm just going to turn the wheel. That's better. That prevents the whole knuckle, the weight of it, from resting on the axle. That should help me remove it. Driver's side axle goes over here and into the transmission. It is possible that when you undo this, you may lose some transmission fluid, so you should have a drain pan handy.

I'm going to use a pry bar to kind of find the edge of the axle. This little slot might work. I'm just going to pry against the transmission case. You just have to pop it out of the snap ring. There it is. I just had to bounce the pry bar a bit. Now I'm going to guide it out, don't want to damage the seal on the transmission. We have our axle assembly.

Here's the original driver's side CV axle removed from our vehicle, and our brand new one from 1AAuto.com. There's no core charge on this. It's an exact match as far as dimensions. Has the ABS tone ring. Comes with a new axle nut. Has the same style snap ring that goes into the transmission. This will fit great and work great in our vehicle. I'm going to take off the new axle nut and put that aside. We're going to guide our axle into the transmission.

Go in the same way I took the old one out. I also have to reach in here, and I want to guide it into the transmission. Be careful not to damage the seal. There are splines in the transmission so you might have to turn it a little bit. It should slide right in. Yup, there we go. Now we get it kind of started, kind of go in and then stop. It's at the snap ring. Just to help myself out here I'm going to bungee this out of the way. It's just being very annoying.

Set up and hit it home. It is seated. We did have some transmission fluid leak out, so I'm just going to wipe that out. I'm going to take the bungee cord off now. We're going to put the axle back into the hub, push it out, actually turn the axle, or twist it. Get it lined up in the opening. You might have to turn it a little bit to get the splines to line up. It should slide right on. Capture the new axle nut just a few threads so it doesn't fall off. I'm going to turn this whole assembly straight again. I need this up under here. I'm going to try to pull it down.

Now see I left the axle nut loose, so I do have play this way, I can move it around. I'm going to use a pry bar to pry down on the control arm. I'll move this around, switch hands, get the studs lined up first, push in. There we go. I'm going to get these nuts caught. Now I can use these nuts to pull the ball joint in. Now the bolt hole is closer, so I can reinstall the bolt. I'm going to torque the two nuts and the bolt to 55 foot-pounds. As soon as it clicks, it's all set. I'm going to use the axle nut socket and just thread the axle nut down. Now I did touch the surface with my greasy gloves. I don't want any of that in our brake components, so I'm just going to use some brake parts cleaner and just clean that off. Take this lug nut off.

I'll reinstall the wheel, lower the vehicle to the ground, torque the lug nuts, and then torque the axle nut. I'm going to install the lug nuts by hand. Take the socket and just snug these lug nuts up. They do have a cone seat, and they'll kind of seat themselves into the wheel and align it up. I'm going to lower the vehicle to the ground and torque the lug nuts to 76 foot-pounds in a cross pattern. I'm going to torque the axle nut to 217 foot-pounds.

Now I need to stake the axle nut so it doesn't spin loose. I'm going to use a punch and a ball peen hammer. I'm going to line it up right at the edge here on the groove. Now it's staked in place. Replace your center cap, it just clips into place. The job is complete.

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With the wheel off and the vehicle on jack stands and supported, need to punch out the part where the axle nut has been staked into the axle. This way the axle nut can be removed. There's no cotter pin. It's actually, once it's installed, it's been peened in, or staked. So I need to take another punch and work it underneath.

All right, let's spray some rust penetrant on the end of the axle. It needs a 30 millimeter 12-point deep socket to remove this axle nut. You're going to want to have an assistant step on the brake and then use a really long breaker bar to break this free. I broke it free with the breaker bar. I'm going to use a ratchet to bring the rest of the way off. I'll just leave it threaded on there for now.

Disconnect the sway bar link from the strut. Then you can lay the sway bar link over to the side. Disconnect the tie rod end to the ball joint and pull it off the knuckle. That way I can turn the knuckle freely, push the axle out of the back of the knuckle, and the axle out in this direction and then work on freeing it from the transmission and the bearing mount that's here on the side of the engine. Once those are released, you should be able to pull the axle straight out of the engine compartment.

Spray some rust penetrant on this upper sway bar mount. Use a wire brush to clean off some of the rusty bits. These can be difficult to take off. They get rusty and then the ball joint spins. It does have a hex spot here to put in a six millimeter hex drive. A lot of times that strips almost instantly as soon as you try to break it free, and you end up having to put vise grips behind to grab onto the ball joint because there's no point here for a wrench. We'll do our best to get this one off without having to cut it off.

This is 17 millimeter nut. Break it free first. See it's turning. It's turning the whole ball joint with it. It's really tight. Try and do clean out any rust and dirt that's in this hex drive, so I can get the hex drive to sit as far possible inside here so it doesn't strip. Use some brake parts cleaner. I've sprayed some oil in there, and I've been working the Hicks drive-in to try to clean it out. I can see it's going in a little deeper, try to get to sit as best I can. Think that's as far as it will go. Spray some more rust penetrant on there.

I'm going to try to counter hold this with the hex drive while I free it with the 17 millimeter box wrench. We'll see how this goes. Sometimes you have to brace that against like the strut. That needs just have so much See, it's moving. That's good. It's really tight though, so I'm going to I'm just going to put that there. I'm going to spray some more rust penetrant. These are typically self-locking nuts so they're a little bit They're not perfectly round. They're kind of oblong. That can make removing them difficult. Also, the rust gets gummed up in the threads. I'm trying to spin this on and off to try to work the rust penetrant into the threads.

As I kind of expected, working these back and forth, this hex drive, they basically always strip. It's nearly impossible to remove them without these stripping, no matter what you do. The next step I'm going to get some vise grips and try to hold the ball joint back here and use a 17 millimeter socket and ratchet and continue to remove this nut. Going to try to slide these locking pliers behind the ball joint on the sway bar link, got a 17 millimeter deep socket on this longer ratchet and try to remove these.

It feels like it's turning. One thing to mention: if you're going to have to remove sway bar links for any reason or think you're going to have to remove them for any reason, you should have new ones on hand. They're almost a one-time use part. But we carry them at 1aauto.com. If you're as lucky as us, you'll have to resort to power tools or a hacksaw to cut these sway bar links free. I'll do my best to avoid the strut. I don't want to damage that. I just want to kind of cut on the going to try to find the narrowest part of the ball joint in the sway bar link. I think I'm on there.

I need to separate the outer tie rod end with the ball joint from the knuckle. There's a cotter pin in the castle nut. I'm going to spray some rust penetrant in here. Take some needle-nose pliers and bend the cotter pin over so it's straight. You can use side cutting pliers to get a better grip on it. Pry it out. Try not to squeeze too hard. You don't want to cut the cotter pin if you don't have to. Easier to remove it in one piece. There we go. I'm going to use a 17 millimeter box wrench and break the castle nut free. It doesn't want to budge. Take a dead blow mallet, tap the end of the wrench. I'm just going to put that nut just on the end. Can hit right here in the knuckle with a metal hammer to try to free this ball joint from here.

You do run the risk of cracking this knuckle and damaging it. It's preferred to use a ball joint separator tool. I'm just going to slide that in, thread it down. Use the appropriate size wrench for the tool and keep threading it. This will separate the ball joint by pressing it out. They have a taper, and basically it's press fit. When you tighten in the nut, it presses into the knuckle. That's what holds it in place. It needs to be pressed out. That one is free. Remove the nut. Just work that out. Might have to move that a little bit. Just place that aside. This way I've got more room to move the knuckle to get the axle up.

I want to spray some rust penetrant into the splines here to help this slide out. It needs a plastic dead blow hammer to free it from the knuckle/the axle. Now it's moving nice and free. I can take the axle nut off. Now that I know that this axle will move free from inside the hub, I'm just going to put the axle nut back on for now, just a couple of threads to keep it from falling out potentially, because we need to go underneath and loosen these ball joint, the two nuts and the bolts, and pull the knuckle and strut assembly away from this lower arm and help us get the CV axle out.

We can separate the ball joint from the lower control arm by removing these nuts and this bolt here. You don't have to mess with the ball joint that's in the knuckle. Spray a little bit of rust penetrant on these. Just using the rag so it doesn't drip everywhere. This one has threads on the top side. These are 17 millimeter, so I'm using a 17 millimeter socket, a breaker bar and extension. Put these bolts aside so I can reuse them. I'm going to grab the lower control arm and I'll push up on the suspension arm a little bit, get them to separate. Might need to use a pry bar. That's why I put the nut on the axle shaft so it didn't slide completely out on me. Let's take the nut off of the axle, pull the axle out of the hub, and place that aside.

Now we're under the car. There is a axle bearing carrier that is both of the back of the engine block that our passenger side CV axle is going through. This is a bearing inside here, and then it goes out and into the transmission. I need to spray some rust penetrant in here and remove this big locking ring and then remove this locking bolt, and this should slide out of this carrier and come out of the transmission. We'll have a drain pan ready to catch any fluid that comes out of here. But that should do it. Get some rust penetrant up in here. You can either use a large flat bladed screwdriver. I'm using a big pry bar to kind of push it free.

Use some slip jaw pliers, kind of squeeze these together. This upper part of the snap ring is kind of rusted and seized into the groove. Take a ball-peen hammer and try to tap it free. Back to the slip jaw pliers, kind of basically free it from the groove that it's in. If this snap ring comes out without a problem