Hindsight's build thread

[Hindsight]

Uhhhhh, I'm stuck on this one. Never had this happen before. One of the front drives hafts won't come out of the hub. I've had some that needed a couple good whacks with a 5lb hammer before but never frozen on this solid. Donor has ZERO rust on it and came from Northern Texas so I'm pretty stumped at why it's so frozen.

I put it in a 20 ton shop press to try and press it out - no dice. I then heated the exposed part of the driveshaft (where the threads are) with map gas for over 5 minutes until it was REALLY hot, then put it all back in the shop press and tried again - still no luck.

I sprayed it with a bunch of liquid wrench and will let it sit like that overnight and try again tomorrow. Unless someone has any great advice, it looks like I'm going to have to buy a new knuckle assembly and outer CV joint housing if the overnight soak doesn't work.