one of my first diy jobs was replacing a halfshaft on my 95 accord. bought a remanufactured halfshaft from a local shop and borrowed a spindle nut socket from autozone, and the nightmare begins. the car had about 100k miles and the spindle nut was so rusted it wouldn't budge. i only had my good ol' craftsman torque wrench to do this job so i had my uncle hold the wrench in place and i just jumped and jumped on it, but still won't budge. i hammered it a bit, sprayed some dw40 a few times. after 45 mins of trying it finally came off. so i drained my transaxle and proceeded to remove the old halfshaft. the cv boots were really torn apart so when i pryed it out of the transaxle, it just fell apart and i got grease all over myself. getting the new halfshaft into the rusted wheel hub didnt go smoothly either. did a lot of greasing and hammering. so i finally installed it after about an hour, refilled my transaxle, put my wheel/tire back on, and unjacked the car. that's when i realized i hadn't torqued my tie rod ball joint, and sure enough its treads got stripped. i was already pissed at this point so i just hammered it until i can torque it. time for the test drive. i was 3 blocks away from my house and the halfshaft popped out of my transaxle. tranny fluid was leaking all over the place and my car was stuck in the middle of an intersection. i'd hate to call a towtruck to take my car 2 blocks, so i called my cousin who lived a few blocks away to help me push the car back home. we were a block away from home and my battery choked...no more power steering, tranny fluid leaking, alarm was going off, and my cousin pushing the car....it wasnt a pretty sight. after finally getting the car home, i took the halfshaft off (going through the same ordeal as when i started) and returned it to the shop. they told me they gave me the wrong part so i finally went to carquest, which is a bit farther, to get the halfshaft from them. and finally everything went smoothly.