usually it prety much falls, out in know mine did,

just get a screw driver in ther n move it around a bit, it should come..

 

did you take the wheel off?

 

Mine just fell out when I pushed the axles in. Maybe you can use some needle nose pliers to grab it.

 

Sometimes turning the chunk will help.

 

With a pair of needle nose pliers or a screwdriver

 

i dont even take off the wheels, just pushed them in and they fell.

 

You have to entirely remove the pinion gear shaft between the axles. All the

way out-I have a Haynes manual that says to let it drop until it hits the

case, which is not far enough. If you don't take it all the way out the axles

don't slide in far enough. At that point the clips can be removed with a pick,

magnet, screwdriver,etc. So, little lock bolt out first, turn the whole

differential by hand 180 degrees, then slide the center spacer(pinion gear

shaft) all the way out of the differential. That allows you to push the axles in

and get at the clips.

 

yep, sometimes they even put little bastard o-rings on there, and you have to really pick them outta there, just make sure that the axle goes in far enough that you dont have the clip into the counterbore area of the side gears.

 

I got it out. It was actually pretty easy. I took a crapy par of needle nose pliers and ground them down so were thin enough to fit in there and it pulled out with no problem. Thanks for the all the advice.

 

I got it out. It was actually pretty easy. I took a crapy par of needle nose pliers and ground them down so were thin enough to fit in there and it pulled out with no problem. Thanks for the all the advice.

Bingo.

 

I did mine with a toothpick...

 

I always use a magnet.

 

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since i see some people in the area and no one could answer my post heres my issue..

at first i couldnt get that shaft out do to broken bolt so shop said said 40 and hour but couldnt tell me how long it would take so i drilled it out so now i need a new shaft if there is another way to hold it in there without gettin a new bolt. i know some diffs use some clip thing also the diff is cracked now doesnt seem to be to bad what should i do just get a new diff?

im thinkin either after market diff or get a whole rear end from pick and pull any advice

 

i would say that bolt is probably the best bet for retaining the carrier pin. in my 89 it was not broken, but it was broken in a axle i had to take apart to steal the shaft from, and its also broken in my rodeo (same chev 10b), thats why i have been driving my burb everywhere. on the axle i have done so far, i used a cut off wheel on a 4.5" angle grinder. i cut a small slit in the carrier right next to the carrier pin, and the cut when just more than halfway through the broken piece of the retaining bolt. from there i was able to work it out with a small flat head screw driver because there as still a thread or two on the broken piece. interestingly, the ones have had this problem with are all 28 spline axles, and all the 26 spline ones have been fine. i think there is a design flaw in the 28 spline carrier (or it could be the carrier pin) that gives that little bolt just enough room to wiggle and shear itself. the 26 spline ones have all had the different carrier and have not had this problem.