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Originally Posted by tcoradeschi
I don’t see that the exhaust needs to come out.
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That could well be true. I've only personally done this once.
We fiddled with getting the axle out for a while (IIRC it was just a problem on one side). But before long my son (who's never afraid to further disassemble stuff to gain access to other stuff) persuaded me that we should undo a few exhaust bolts to assist our progress. We didn't totally drop the exhaust—nothing that drastic. Just loosened it up, so things could be moved an inch or two this way or that.
It also helped that, from all appearances, the car's never been driven on salty, slushy roads. (Certainly never by me. It's an '01 that I bought in 2006, so I have no idea prior to that. But it looks like it never has been. There's virtually no corrosion visible whatsoever.) I think we used his impact wrench, and it came apart fairly easily.
Also, yours is a different year ('04, right?). I'm sure there's differences from one year to the next, so it may be totally unnecessary in your car.
Let us know how it goes.
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