Had a customer come in and asked us to check out his 02 mountaineer,checked it out it needs a rear half shaft,was wondering if there was any trick to get these out ive never had any problem getting cv/halfshafts coming out until this merc. build date is 10/02,was told theres a certain spot to get it to come out ive turned it 360degrees slowly and tried pulling it out,tried everything but pull the diff cover off.customer is coming back saturday and dropping it off and letting us have a lil bit more time with it, any tips will help

 

It was Mercury.

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