It is not clear to me what you are trying to do. Has the torque tube been disconnected at the banjo and removed from the drive shaft, or is the drive shaft still inside? If what you are trying to do is removal of the front roller bearing and gear from inside the torque tube, and the drive shaft has been removed, there is a technique.
Place a 1 & 1\16" six-point, 1\2" drive, deep socket over the end of the drive shaft spline. Put the torque tube back over the drive shaft and with everything standing vertical bounce it on the floor a number of times. The socket should drive the grease seal, bearing, race, speedo drive gear, and thrust washer out of the torque tube.
If the drive shaft is still inside the torque tube, disconnect it from the banjo, remove the speedo gear housing, remove the radius rods and put a steel rod through the bolt hole for the radius rods at the front of the torque tube and tap on it with a suitable heavy hammer.
Go to
www.ocmafc.org and click on tech articles, then click on my articles. There is a dissertation on rear end rebuilding that addreses torque tube removal and disassembly.
Tom Endy
