How to Replace a CV Joint : How to Remove a CV Joint Nut

Learn how to remove lug nuts and a CV joint nut in this free auto repair video.

Expert: Nathan McCullough
Bio: Nathan McCullough graduated from Nashville Auto-Diesel College with a GPA of 3.5 and received their Craftsmanship Award and Honor Seal.
Filmmaker: Robert Rogers

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

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• joint
• drive
• shaft
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[hustkisas]

can you just number every video in this series? I would be much easier to go through the whole series in the order, thanks

[Hawk7886]

Don't use a cheater pipe on a ratcheting head. It's extremely hard on it and it's not a nice thing to do.

Use a large breaker bar, grabbing a cheater pipe only if you really need to.

[poposlow]

i hate how these video makes it seems so easy as if they opened the nuts already then open again when they tape it. does nut aint that easy to take out unless youre very very lucky.

[001001sith]

woa..what an idiot..especially since he sold out to expert village.

[jareds1007]

@Hawk7886 busted a 3/4 drive on my brothers blazer...that baby was tight!!

[Deathstroke44]

i felt pain as i watched him use a cheater pipe on a rachet, ugh, why. im a 91m in the military (bradley fighting vehicle system maintainer) and that is one of the first things they made sure we understood in the engine bay. u can really damage a ratchet doing that! dont do it!

[mojoe10k2]

A ratchet really isn't the best tool, no. At least he didn't bust out his impact and hammer it off like the D bags I work with do... Makes me cringe.

[jass355]

@Hawk7886 i agree the ratchet can break its best to use a breaker bar. These videos are useless and give out wrong information to people.

[TK42138]

Actually why is he pulling up to release the hub nut. Always push downwards with your palm open just in case it slips otherwise you mash your fingers into the ground. Pushing is easier with body weight than pulling up where you run the real risk of hitting yourself with the breaker bar if it slips off or the 'socket lets go'.

He should have checked out my hub nut removal video first...

[TK42138]

Bloody Hell, one of the earliest things I was taught when I was learning the trade was never use a ratchet wrench with an extension bar (cheater pipe) ! Easiest way to trash a good tool. Plus cheap and nasty ratchet mechanisms tend to shatter when over-loaded - bit like cheap sockets. Apart from this little oversight the video is okay.

[PsychoFreke]

@:08 "A broken CV joint, also known as a drive shaft"

The CV joint is PART of the drive shaft, but is not the drive shaft.

I also think he just put that nut on. Most CV axles have slot on the threaded

end of the spline to bend the edge of the CV into in order to keep it from

coming off. It wouldn't have come off that easy without pounding that out.

It is possible to turn the nut and shear it off, but it takes excessive amounts

of force that would more than likely break his ratchet.

[herensolitude666]

nice. I was teying to get that cv bolt off in the air for about 2 hours I was useing a bar to try and hold it still .thanks. I've been following your cv videos . cool