Universal Joint Removal Help

I have read on how you use 2 sockets and a vise to press them out and this makes perfect sense to me. THe issue is when I do this it doesn't allow me to press it all the way out. I have it in the vice and I can only turn it closed so far. THe yokes are hitting against each other and the cup on the back side is still probably only half way out. I don't know If I could POSSIBLY grad onto it with a vise-grip or something and pull it out but I doubt it. Its very tight of course. The cup that I am pushing in on is all the way out on the inside but I didn't know if I could pry up on that to get it out... almost doubt it without breaking something.

I am just trying to figure out what I am doing wrong?

When you push in on one side the cup on the other should come the whole way out correct? Maybe this is a differnt kind of cross or something but it looks pretty standard. It is out of a New holland 66 baler. Pretty old but good.

Thanks

Thanks for all the help! I got the Cross out today using a bit of all of your suggestions!

Once again thanks much for the help! Now I just need to go get a new cross to reinstall.

Put the sockets back in your toolbox.

Remove the keepers on the u-joint. Open your vice enough that you can rest one yoke on the jaws.

Smack the other yoke at the "beefy" part with a 2-pound hammer, the u-joint will pop out of it's hole. Flip the shaft upsidedown and do the other side. Then, do the same thing with the other yoke while putting the u-joints axles across the jaws of the vice.

Whole removal procedure shouldn't take more than a minute.

Allan

Rod