Emergency -- Pinion will not come out

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I have everything taken apart. diff cover off, carrier out, drive shaft down, yolk out, pinion nut off. But the pinion will not come out!!!!!....Please help. How can I get that pinion out? 92 5.0 with 8.8 rear end. PLease help everything apart and it is getting dark. The pinion spins freely (it is a stock pinion). Seems to be locked into the diff cavity.

 

[RacEoHolic330]

I had the same issue with mine. I had to bang it out with a screwdriver and a mallet. It got pretty messed up in the process but i didn't care being that my eaton posi came with a new one.

 

[troyGT03]

stupid question... did you try to put the pinion nut almost all of the way and then hit with a dead blow hammer. not a metal hammer, a plastic sand filled dead blow hammer.you dont want to mees the pinion threads if you are reusing the pinion. sometimes the pinion gets in a bind with the bearing race/crush sleeve/seal.

 

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yea tried that, I am banging on it with a big-arse hammer. Wont even budge. Not reusing the pinion at all.....That thing is on there...real good. Any sneaky tricks of the trade to get this thing off??

 

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please help.....the rear end is just hanging there, well not hangin but taken apart.

 

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anyone? Any chance my rear housing is screwed? Or is it just lodged in there real good?

 

[2002BLGT]

Need A Bfh

Bigger
F&*$(*@
Hammer

 

[Black1987Stang]

Bang her out

 

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1 days, 1 ruined pinion and 2 popeye fore-arms later, I got the pinion out. Now I have to wait another day to have the bearings pressed on.....