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it is 10 degrees Fahrenheit out here on this wonderful winter day one of my friends accidentally slid into a curb and broke her tire you can see that the CV axle in there is broken as well as the knuckle and a couple other things are bent so I'm going to do right now is I'm going to change it out I have to tire off now got the car supported up and you can see right here that the steering knuckle is broken completely snapped off right there and then back in here you can see that the CV axle is also snapped right out of that little holder that it's in right next to the engine mount we just need to make sure that this line right here doesn't have a whole lot of tension on it because the caliper can't support its own weight so I'm going to strap that up so I have to worry about it so right here and the rotor there's a little cotter pin so I've taken the cotter pin and bent up the little edge of it so it's straightened out and then I can grab it from the underside just wiggle it on out of there okay so now there's a big old nut right in the middle of that wheel that's attached the CV axle so we need to take it out I have a big old breaker bar and without air tool sometimes that nut can be stuck on pretty tight so you can get another like a hollow bar and stick it over the end of that to extend your leverage and lift it up and get enough force to actually break loose that nut luckily for me this bar was enough I'm so now that not inside of there is coming loose so I took the tire put it back on attach two lug nuts to it and then set it back down again so that wouldn't spin while I was trying to rotate the nut off it held the tyre in place so that I could remove the whole thing now I'm going to jack up the car take the tire back off and then work on getting the rest of the broken parts off so the CV axle is this guy right back here and it is the thing that is connected right inside of here with this nut so what I've done is I've taken this nut and put it right on the edge of the bolt like that so I can hit it with the hammer and not damage any threads so if I take my hammer it's pushing that right back through and this car amazingly isn't that stuck I'm just a couple light taps and it started to feed all the way through so now that it's moving I can just remove this nut the rest of the way found it through and that will release the rest the contraption from the broken CV axle this is the part where the CV axle goes into the transmission and you just got to make sure that this is the old one right now so you can see how flush it is when you pull the new one out it's got to be that same you know stuck as far in there as you can all right so I missed a step but get the top part of the knuckle out there are two bolts right up here at the top that are 24 millimeters sorry 22 millimeters as I put my wrench on one side my ratchet on the other side and just kind of twisted them counterclockwise to get that top part out and this is the part that was broken so once those two nuts were out I just pulled that right out now we're gonna come in here get that castle nut off now normally when you're replacing the CV axle it's not going to mess with your alignment very much unless you of course hit something and then you will probably be off of your alignment because the alignments you know done off of whether the components in the car are straight or off of this part right here which is they adjust these little nuts and it makes your alignment on or off all right so this nut right here is on where the steering connects to the actual knuckle of the car so I'm going to release this cotter pin right here and then take off this castle nut and then that'll allow me to separate this shaft from the necklace self click right here for a second the hardest part of this whole job you know the CV axle is not that bad the hardest part of this job is that the knuckle is broken right here and so when I try to twist any nut like let's say this nut back here on the caliper the whole thing kind of shifts like the whole thing rotate so that I can't get any traction anywhere with it now what I've done to fix this problem is taking a huge crowbar put it right back in there the crowbar is this guy on the set Pittsburgh on it and I have propped it up with my leg here and then when I try to rotate this instead of going forward to just rest itself on the crowbar which allows me to take off these nuts so that one I've just barely got it spinning obviously I can't hold the camera support the car and twist the nut but I'm pretty proud of myself so once I get this nut off and the other one hopefully I can get that off by just the same position as well then we'll be able to remove the caliper from the knuckle itself and hopefully be able to get the new knuckle on there and keep moving forward so as I'm trying to do that lower nut on the caliper where that ratchet is right here the breaker bar and I had to take the crowbar and pin it underneath the frame down in there and over the top of this joint right here I kind of just pressed down on both of those at the same time to get the right leverage that I needed so yeah it's working out pretty well okay finally got the caliper off and that kind of leaves us more room to deal with the bottom ball joint so I have the cotter pin lifted up I'm going to slide that out through the castle nut pop the castle nut off and then separate the broken knuckle from the ball joint and then finally pop this end off as well I already have the nut down off the other side I actually just had three cop cars pull up wondering what the heck I'm doing behind the Big O tires at one o'clock in the morning when it's seven degrees out they actually pulled up from this side and then another guy came up from over there thinking I was stealing something but nope is just finals week and Sunday at midnight is the only time that I can work on cars so right here has I'm trying to get off that bottom ball joint and I have this thing right here called a tip in polar and so basically what it does is this little guy right here screws and unscrews and so as I tighten it down onto the top of this bolt right here it's going to pull the knuckle up because it has these claws down there at the bottom so hopefully that pulls it up and out of the way because with how loose everything is that everything's broken there's no good way to hit that or pry it off even if I had like a pickle fork or something to stick between there it wouldn't really work out very well all right got everything disconnected pretty stoked about it that little tippmann puller down there and did a great job pulling off that busted knuckle all right so now I just need to pull off the rest of that CV axle so this is half of it right here and the other half is still inside of there attached to the engine mount you can see the very back of there it's attached into the transmission my Mountain Dew froze so that is where we connect into the transmission and this is where it is bolted on to the engine mount so in order to get this part out of the engine mount you have to remove this little pinch bowl right here which kind of sticks it up inside of there then what I did is I took a can of that pv blaster which is that guy over there sprayed it up all around this opening on the inside sometimes this little gizmo whatever this is seizes up inside and then after that took my little cat's paw right here and put it up inside of that little opening right there and then hit it a couple times with my hand again a sledge hammer and then after I hit it then it popped out I've seen a couple other YouTube videos where they took out this engine mount that seems like an incredible amount of work and I don't have any power tools so brute force and some Q blaster did the trick for me so there's that also I took this is kind of a little pinch thing that's holding it up inside this groove right here if you just grab both of those with the pliers and pinch a shut that releases it from the groove and then you have to transfer this over to the other CV axle anyway so now that that is out I'm going to grab the new CV axle clean up the inside of this and then press it back into place all right here's a little trick I learned from eric the car guy he's another youtuber post a link for his channel right here he knows quite a bit about cars anyway so he says to line both of these CV axles up together and check to see if they're the same one which is a great idea because when I got about here I can tell that my CV axle the one that broke doesn't have this which happens to be the ABS a little gear sensor thingy so I have to wait till tomorrow morning so I can swap that out to get the one that I need here's a sway bar and this is actually the easiest part of the whole deal all you have to do is take off this 14 millimeter bolt here 14 millimeter bolt on the side right here and then the whole thing just pops right out if the bolt on the inside of sway bar starts spinning when you're trying to unscrew it just kind of grab the sway bar and can't get sideways so it pinches the bolt and then it'll bracket and then that I'll let you get this off the end of it because of it when it's pinched inside the bolt like that it won't spin around all right so these are sway bars right here sway bar links you can see what the new ones they're a lot thicker than the old ones are I'll put all of the parts and stuff in the video description below so if you need to replace this on your vehicle it'll be a lot easier to find it I usually do Amazon Amazon is the cheapest place to get this kind of stuff to get the sway bar on there's a little nut right here on the side that you can just get on and then you can continue ratcheting it down the over there see hold still with this one Ratchet it with the other one and we're off to a good start this morning the CD axle I just took it gently press it into place and it looks like it is sitting exactly where it needs to they're going to put in the bottom bolt right here you're going to want to make sure to do this before you put the CD axle in place because you can't get that nut on there once it's all put back together ask me how I know all right got these top two bolts in got the king nut and the cotter pin through here now I'm going to take the caliper and put that back on the bolts that it was on before all right got this final nut in place it's not tighten down as far as we go yet I'm going to wait till I get the tire back on and then drop it down and then finish tightening it up but we're all finished on the inside caliper bolts are tightened down as far as they can go and there you have it I replay the CV axle anyway I will list all the parts and stuff you need in the video description below but they look at that place the sway bars CV axle everything else if you have any other questions make sure to leave me in the comments like this video if it helped you and 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