Well I thought I'd be cool and put a elcheapo lift kit on my sportsman 700. Followed the instructions to a "t" and put the 2" spacers on top of the struts. Well, in the process I must have let the a-arm drop too low and the axle came out of the cv joint.

Any tips on how to get it back in there? Do I need pull the caliper, drop the lower a-arm and pull the hub to remove the axle? Is that the only way to fix it? Sorry, sometimes I think I'm a mechanic and I am NOT.

Any help would be greatly appreciated guys.

 

When ever it happened to me (several times) I would end up dropping the a arm, pulling the caliper and the hub and in most cases you can pull back on strut assembly far enough to"bend" the cv shaft out and down from the strut Then I would remove the boot clamps,slide the boot back far enough so I could slowly turn the cv until I felt it line up on the shaft and then give it a good whack with a dead blow hammer to reseat it Then slide the boot back down and replace the clamps Then I would "bend' the cv joint again while pulling out on the strut(friends come in handy too for this) and slip it back into the strut then reassemble hub and caliper and the a arm. Pain in the butt! I had one tech who could "feel" the splines with the boot still on and could usually line up! I never could with out sliding the boot back. Hope this helps. OPT

 

some have done it with it together but it might be quicker to just drop it as mentioned above.