if you need local help get on the regional sections of the cherokee forums- there's always some guys willing to help out. There are a ton of cali guys on naxja.

 

Posted in the so cal forum of the site, we'll see if that works out. I want this nightmare to be over.

 

Well I gave poundin on it with a sledge one more shot and finally.. the moment i've been waiting for.. it popped out! Ahhhhh.. relief

 

That's awesome!

Hopefully you can put it back together now

 

Well after all that hard work and determination all of it was put back together, but during the first test drive it popped off again and this time broke the connector from the transmission to the drive shaft. So now i'm on a search for a new drive shaft as well as the the cone shaped piece that connects the transmission to the drive shaft (if anyone can help with the name of the part, that'd be great) so yea.. gonna take a little time before it's running again.

 

I replaced mine the other day and itt took awhile to get out since I left the DS under the jeep I tried everything Hitting it with socket and small sledge setting it on fire and Even tried cutting it out with a sawz-all and it just smoked the blad finally I let PB blaster soak in and hit it sum more and it finally poped out

 

Yea, I got mine out yesterday, but one of the clips slipped out the groove and caused the whole joint to pop out again and cause some damage.

 

Does anyone know the name of the cone shaped piece that connects the transmission to the rear drive shaft?

 

Are you talking about the yoke?