Ok, well I had just spent the last 2 hours trying to unbolt the driveshaft! Breaking the nuts was the easy part, but what is taking so long is wrenching on the damn bolts. Is there a faster way of doing this? Its has taken me about 30mins++ a bolt! and I still have one and a half to remove.

Any advice would be helpful! Thanks!

Also would it be bad to reverse the bolt and nuts when I put them back in? Right now the bolthead is towards the rear and the nut is to the front, can I switch it?

 

Not really sure why it's taking so long. After breaking loose the lower bolts/nuts, just turn the shaft so the others are on the bottom. Do you have the exhaust off or is it still on the car?

 

Nut go toward the front of the car, Id leave it the way it is. Im not sure what you mean exactly, once you get the nut off, the bolt part just slides out. It is not threaded into the driveshaft itself. I had one that was stuck pretty good one time, just gave it a little whack with a copper mallet and it popped out.

 

It is much easier with the exhaust pipe off.

 

A ratchet with a long extension works for me. The long extension is to avoid the exaust pipe with the throw of the ratchet handle. Like the man said...your going to have to drop the exaust down to remove the driveshaft, even if it's just the rear of the exaust...it's gotta be dropped down some.