I am barely above a novice when it comes to working on cars. I often pay professionals to do work on my cars, but every once in a while I try doing something that I think I am capable of doing. Anyways, I will be doing the inlinePRO R200 rear conversion on my S, and I have people lined-up to purchase my OEM diff, driveshaft, axles and hubs.

Earlier tonight I started removing my OEM rear drivetrain. I first went to Sears and purchased a Craftsman 150psi 26 gallon air compressor and an Ingalls titanium impact gun (spent about $600 on the two items). When I got home I had alread removed the rear wheels and the two screws in each rear rotor. With the aid of the impact gun, I easily removed the spindle nuts. I then removed the pins from the upper/lower controls arms, loosened the nut on each part, and took a hammer and smacked the control arms a few times (trick taught to me by a local Honda dealership).

The control arms broke free and I proceed with removing the bolts holding each axle to the rear diff. Good old impact gun. I then used a plain on socket wrench and allen sockets to remove the bolts holding the driveshaft. At this point I have everything removed but the diff itself. That will come out easy enough tomorrow morning. As good as I feel about myself right now, I am honestly nervous about putting the new diff kit in (which won't actually happen till later this year because I am switching my focus to mod'n my wife's new EVO!).

Just wanted to share this story with you all.

 

very nice. congrats =)

 

Not bad, I can have a diff out and back in, in under 2 hours

 

Um, are you trying to make me feel bad?

 

Good luck on your prop bolts

 

I already got those off last night. That's what I used the allen socket for. Piece of cake when you put the car in gear the driveshaft won't move while you're removing the bolts.

 

I had to cut the heads off the drive shaft bolts on a car with 19,000mi on it. (Well, I got a friend to cut them off for me, I guess he didn't trust me with the cut-off wheel. He's a smart friend. )

Removing anything is usually the easy part, btw. It's putting it back together that gets tricky.

Good luck with it.

 

I couldn't agree with you more.