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    Suggestions on removing CV axle while working on car on the ground

    Hello, Just want to close this by saying that I finally got this thing fixed. Just before the Covid 19 stuff and shut down, my best friend managed to get a deal on getting it fixed with his mechanic and it's now back on the road and running great, but in the process some other items needed...
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    Suggestions on removing CV axle while working on car on the ground

    With your latest suggestion, you are NOT helping! LOL. Well, let me see what I can do with the air hammer, and if it fails, then yank out the joint shaft and then go from there, maybe replace it if one can be found in a reasonable amount of time. I wonder if it WAS replaced at one point, but...
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    Suggestions on removing CV axle while working on car on the ground

    [SIZE=4]Fortunately, no rust that I see, I live in Western Washington so rust is generally not an issue for us and my green cup still looks quite good for an old part. The closeup of the CV joint cup at the jack shaft looks to be about where mine is now. When I began, that recessed ridge that...
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    Suggestions on removing CV axle while working on car on the ground

    Thanks for the advice on getting it back on, that will indeed be helpful. Yes, the knuckle itself was completely free of all connections and still, could not get the back CV joint cup to move much. I do have molly grease to help install the new axle, BTW. I did get the axle separated by...
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    Suggestions on removing CV axle while working on car on the ground

    Thanks. I knew that intuitively that just to get it past the clips, but no amount of banging did the job. As I said in my initial post, a video showed where a bearing left too long before replacing caused the axle to seize in the hub. And due to the small amount of room between the axle shaft...
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    Suggestions on removing CV axle while working on car on the ground

    Hello, I'm now in the middle of removing the CV axle on the passenger side from the jack shaft spline since removing it all the way back at the transmission is one impossible (no room and can't reach) but also, even the Mazda P5 manual says to drain the transmission (true?) before popping the...
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    P5 Troubling Start and Problems

    Right above, THIS, this could be the root of your ailments and this is because your car has computers to manage the engine (Engine Control Unit), body (body control unit) and so on and they utilize sensors and all of them need at minimum, 12V to run and then generate a 5V reference signal to...
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    Poor hot idle after a timing belt replacement

    Good news, Outside of needing to burp the cooling system, the car is back to its old self again. It all was because of doing a grins and giggles try to see if any changes would commence by reinstalling the old MAF sensor and badda bing! STFT came back, MAF circuit low A code went away (had to...
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    Poor hot idle after a timing belt replacement

    Once I get it to about 1200rpm and let it idle, the transition is smooth down to hot idle so that's fine, it's the initial start up, once it's been sitting and here, I just let it idle for about a couple of minutes or so before rolling and gradually, it'll run fine and like normal as the car is...
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    Poor hot idle after a timing belt replacement

    Pcb, Mostly, the dying is first few minutes of driving, once started up, after that it more or less drives like normal, so far and I think it just needs time to relearn so the jury is still out, at this point and time. I have not gotten a cat code, nor does the car feel sluggish at all now...
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    Poor hot idle after a timing belt replacement

    As for the timing, I had hoped it would not be that as I had not been looking forward to tearing into that but you are likely right in the timing. Thus the comment I made about double checking the timing when I put things back together after the water pump replacement. That whole reinstall went...
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