2005 Cub Cadet side by side front axles

[Robbie Wyre]

I'm working on a 2005 Cub Cadet side by side and I'm trying to remove the front two axles.  I have a slide hammer puller on the inner joint and with all my strength they will not budge.   Anyone have the same issues and is there something I'm missing or a trick of some sort to pull these out?   Any suggestions please and thank you.

[Travis]

you should be able to get a flat pry bar inbetween the inner cv joint and the front differential.You will need to put some outward pressure on the inner cv joint and have someone give the axle a good pull outward,with a couple of good yanks you should be able to remove axle from front diff.

[Robbie Wyre]

Yup.... Did all that.  Resorted to a 10 pound slide hammer puller and still nothing.  It must be really seized on the splines.  I just want to make sure that there's only the jog ring on the end of the axle and nothing else.  And that's on either side I've done everything I could.  Still stuck. .......

[Travis]

Hmmm.. I would if possible spray it down with PB blaster or Liquid wrench and see if will let loose.

do you have a model # of your machine?

[Robbie Wyre]

I've had it soaking in Deep Creep penetrating fluid the last two days.   I hope it loosens it up enough to let it go.   Frustration at its best.  Thanks for the advice.  Appreciate it.

[Al-WI]

I realize this is a rather old thread but I had similar problem and found a simple solution. The axle spline was seized in the differential and no prying, pulling, cussing got it to move. I found that my cheap Harbor Freight bearing separator just fit between the CV joint and the differential. Started tightening it up with the impact wrench and the spline popped right out. Cleaned out the really rusty  differential spline ‘socket’ and loaded the new axle spline with anti-seize and everything slid back together smoothly.

https://www.harborfreight.com/bearing-separator-and-puller-set-62593.html

 

[CRV]

Can you or have you put some heat on it? Works sometimes