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What you will need is a large flat ended pry bar, or a crowbar if that's all you have. You need to get good leverage by the shaft you are removing at the transmission, and give it a solid hard yank on the bar. You may need to do this a few or more times, but that's how you do it. Also have a drain pan handy, because when you get the axle to pop it will drip a minamal amount of fluid.
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Probably a bad "CV" joint on one of the front axels. The CVs go bad every now and then and are not too expensive to fix. Any auto shop can/will do the repair. You will need a new axel for left or right front.
Jack the vehicle up at proper jack points and lower onto jack stand or stands.remove drivers side wheel. Use needle node pliers and a screwdriver to remove the cotter pin in the axel nut and determine the size of the axel nut. It will most likely be metric 28mm to 36mm. Use an impact to remove the axel nut. Now you will need to remove one or both of the ball joints. Start with the bottom one first and hold the axel in place and pull out on the hub. After you have the hub off of the axel note the splines and how the line up. Now turn the hub so that it is out of the way. You may be able to just yank the axel out of the transmission. If it didn't come out easily you will need a crow bar to gently pry the axel out of the case. Be careful not to put too much pressure on the transmission case. It's aluminum and it will crack and break if you beat on it. Just pry gently and with the transmission in neutral ( be sure to chalk the rear wheels so the car won't run you over) slowly rotate the axel and pry until it comes out. If that doesn't work you will need to rent a slide hammer. Thread it to the free end of the axel and forcefully slide the weight out to knock the axel about of the trans. Installation is reverse. DO NOT USE A HAMMER to force the axel back in you will mushroom the threads and never get the nut on.
Most of the axles I have pulled out only take a good pull straight out from the transmission. You may have to use a pry bar, just put it between the end of axle and transmission to pop it loose. The rotor side should push back through after you remove it from the a arm.
A broken engine or tranny mount should not cause a front wheel to wobble. If this is happening with a grinding noise I'd expect more of a failing bearing or such. The grinding noise may also be a rotor of the brakes with poor pads. Yes, if a axel, or CV joint, is failing this can make noise too, often times a "clicking" type of noise. Best get the front of the van up on jack stands, remove the tires and inspect all of the front-end components; pay special attention CV joints, rotors and front axel area, loose movement in the axels?
I hope this may have helped,
Tom
You need to replace the whole right side axle shaft. Take the ball-joint loose and the axle nut. Pull the shaft from the hub assembly and then pull it from the transmission
Temporarily because **** from the road is going to get into the transmission because that shaft provide the sealing off of the internal chambers of the transmision.
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