This is exactly what I needed. Thanks!

I cut off my boot on the diff side and it seems so far that I broke the cv joint but not the axle. Is this common? It's all stock here. I'm making 322 awhp 354 ft/lb on an 04 sti, I thought the cv joint would hold up and the axle break first.

 

YOUR AWESOME!! you just made a dream come true

 

WOW you make that look easy Jason! Thx for the tips, hopefully i won't need to change any!

 

I am stuck 8 hours away from home with a rear axle that keeps popping out of the diff. I see there is a clip mentioned on this article within the diff...any idea how to see if mine is snapped or something? And if so how do I go about replacing?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
Jeff

 

I'm gonna need to do this soon due to a torn boot.
But didn't you forget to mention draining/refilling the diff fluid here? Or was it assumed that its gonna drain out when you pull out the axle?

 

The level should be lower than the axle opening.

 

Ahhhhh good to know! Less messy = :tup:

 

where do you buy the axle assembly for an 08 sti?

 

One of my axle clips came out attached to the axle (Left side Rear). I can't get the axle to go back into the diff no matter how hard a slam it in, the clip is dropping a little and preventing the axle going past the first bump inside the diff.

I removed the clip from the axle and tried to press it into place inside the diff but can't get it in place like it should be as above:

Any advice for inserting the clip back into the diff?

Thanks,

Steve.

 

clip stays on the axle

 

Got it sorted now, on RA STi R160 diff the Left clip stays in the axle, and the right clip stays in the diff.

I had a twisted axle so it wouldn't fit back in the diff. Happened while driving when axle was coming out of diff.

Fixed now.

 

This how-to is going to be helpfull for me thx for posting it up.

I have a leaking axle seal on the D/S so i imagine i can follow these steps except i can just let the axle stay in the hub and pull the whole thing (axle and all) out of the diff? Then i'd just put the axle on a stand/box or something while doing the work on the diff.

Haven't found any guide on this yet so i'm going in kinda blind but this sure helps ...

 

I have an 01 forester and snapped the rear cv axle behind the hub assembly (not at the boot, long story and damn near died trying to save the car from rolling on the freeway going 80mph) due to all this Covid bullshit and shops being booked for 3-4 weeks and also not having unlimited funds for the project I came to the conclusion of buying all the parts needed to swap everything from the rear diff forward from a parts car. This article was super super helpful in making my decision so what I did to avoid shop price gouging, extended repair waiting times and overall extra bullshit I unbolted everything from the frame of the parts car except the top of the caliper attached to the brake lines to avoid having to bleed the brakes and all that bs. Once having everything unbolted and a floor Jack securely under the steering knuckle while holding up the end of the cv axle on the other side I just lowered it all down so everything from the diff forward was free, wheeled it over to our ride, jacked it up, bolted everything up as needed put the top of our caliper already still connected and air bled prior and mounted it to the rotor still fashioned to the Frankenstein monster I created and put the rim and tire back on and was done in a matter of 2 hours. Maybe this will help someone in a tight spot or even on a budget or someone that just doesn’t have the mechanical ability to change all of these parts by themselves. This was so easy, just had the car alignment done after wards but was so pumped to know this was possible and costed a fraction of what a shop was quoting us cuz I bought the parts car in full for 150$ and for everything I needed and more