Originally Posted by Omniscient

I used to put the axle in as far as you got it then constatly just use force on the part that goes into the tranny. Never push or pull on the shaft itself. But after that I figured out that getting it in that far then using force while rotating the axle makes it go in easy as hell. I can lift the car up and take both axles out within 15 minutes. Getting the new axles on has always been a bitch untill I started using the rotating method. As for the slave cylinder, you can easily put it back together. The tip goes in and the pin in the boot fits in the concave part.