What is involved in taking the rear axle? is seriously heavy job getting an axle off a Land Rover. Let’s deal with the front first that’s much heavier than the rear because of all the ironmongery associated with the swivels and steering. Here’s how you remove the rear axle. Drain the oil, jack up the rear of the Land Rover until the wheels are just clear of the floor and support it securely with a good size stand under each chassis longitudinal. Check that the vehicle can’t move, rock or tip. Once you’re sure about this, remove the wheels. Disconnect the rear brakes at the flexible hose, clamping it to stop fluid loss. Disconnect the rear prop shaft. Now support under the axle with a trolley jack, remove the shackle pins at the back of the rear springs, lower the axle and springs, take away the jack, remove the axle U bolt and carefully pull the axle out from under the back of the vehicle. This is the easiest way but, If you do it this way, loosen the nuts on the front shackle pins a little, too and when you replace the axle don’t fully tighten any shackle pin nuts until the vehicle’s weight is on the springs.
Remove the ring of six bolts, then release each shaft by tapping gently with a rectangular drift around the wider part of the axle’s extreme end. (This is actually the rear hub bearing housing). The brake back plate, hub, shaft and everything should pull out as one unit from each side. Then remove the differential. So that’s the sequence. And whatever else you do, please be careful all the parts involved here are heavy and there’s no room to exert real strength, so use jacks, lever and sizeable wooden blocks to take any loads.
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