George,

The front of the driveshaft came out easily and once it was out of the car I could tell that it had been out before as the end had been greased so that it would not stick to the end of bevel/angle gear flange.

The rear attached to the Haldex was a different story as I'm pretty sure its never been out.

I tried two methods, but I believe only the one was really what got it to come out.

The first method, was to attack the back of the flange where the driveshaft attaches to the flange. There are 8 holes in this flange; 6 threaded, 2 that are not. I used an air hammer with a pointed chisel in these holes and attacked it this way. It bent my tool and did nothing to move it.

The second method, was that I used a curved like air chisel and wedged it between the flange and the end of the driveshaft. I then took the air hammer off of the chisel and then in trying to get the chisel out it popped the driveshaft free! Then I just had to work it out being careful not to damage the O2 sensor on the cat.

When this drive shaft goes back in, I'll remove the whole exhaust system and put anti-seize on the ends of the driveshaft so that I don't have to beat it out next time, because there will be a next time, that next time being when I put a modified bevel gear that will actually lubricate the bearing correctly.

Matt