Replacing inner CV joint

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   As reported Here, Brian had a most unfortunate experience with his driver's side inner CV joint exploding on the starting line at the autocross last Sunday.

Yeah, looks rather grim. We're kind of curious what happened. Perhaps we'll find out when we get it off this coming weekend. 
On a related note, I wanted to show a neat little tool that new club member Peter Rose has devised. This tool is used to "pop" the inner CV joint out of the transmission. Sometimes they stick in there pretty good, so I was rather intrigued when Peter showed me this device. 
First some pictures, and then an explanation from Peter describing what he's made.

 Peter Rose wrote:

The reason I designed the tool was that I had no experience "popping" the drive axle and my jack stands left insufficient room under the car to use a long pry bar plus the taper on the end of the CV joint makes it hard to apply pressure. The local machine shop cut two plates of 1/8" steel, 3" wide and 12" long. They drilled both 1 1/2" from the end one 2" diameter hole the other 1 3/8". The holes I cut out to the end of the plates. I drilled a 1/2" hole in one plate about half way up and drilled two 1/4" holes close to the plain ends of both plates. I bolted the plates loosely together at the plain end and put a 1/2" dia. bolt through the drilled plate so that I could force the two plates apart.
The plate with the smaller fork I slid up against the CV and the larger diameter fork over the tranny side. By using the bolt to spread the plates I could apply a constant pressure to the drive axle and by using a 2' wrecking bar I could apply a "popping" pressure to further force the plates apart. This tool made the job really easy and protected the CV joint and the Transmission and seal from damage. Feel free to post this and if anyone wants to borrow my tool I'd be glad to lend it. By the way I bought a 30mm socket to remove my hub nuts but in fact I think mine were actually 29mm but I couldn't find a 29mm socket.

Thank you very much Peter for both the info and for the offer!
Okay, we hope to get a few pictures of Brian's GT as we wrestle with his inner CV joint/halfshaft. Stay tuned!