Clubsport drive shaft removal...(and replacement)

[BertBert]

As above really. How do they come out? I assume the nuts are rh and lh threads. Do you have to take the upright off completely to get them out? Any gotchas?
Tks
Bert

[jpivey]

Feel sure both are right hand threads, do they have a roll or split pin fitted if not nuts might have been lock tighted so may require a little heat to undo, drop upright down, and pull will either come straight out or will be a pig to get out as inner CV joint might have a circlip fitted.

[RobC]

Crack the drive shaft nuts, undo the top bolt on the upright and swing it down. As you swing it down remove the cv from it, it might need a short sharp shock to release it from the hub. At the diff end get a big flat blade screwdriver and lever it between the joint and the diff and it'll pop out. To remove the cv's from the shafts there is a circlip in the joint that needs to be expanded to allow the shaft to be removed.

[RobC]

Or do what J-P says

[BertBert]

thanks I'll have a go!
BErt

[BertBert]

I know this is an inane question, but the nuts have roll pins lock-wired in. Are the pins likely to be metric or imperial? Also wouldn't split pins be easier?
Thanks
Bert

[RobC]

Split pins bend

[Simon T]

I Guess roll pins do too otherwise they wouldn't be roll pins

[BertBert]

both good points! Metric or imperial then?
How would I tell?

Bert

[jpivey]

Would say Metric as off a Ford car of the 90'S.
I don't use them instead use locktite.

[BertBert]

Excellent, locktite it is!
Bert