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1990 honda civic (manual transmission). i have been riding on the cv joints wearing down for a while so i figured i would stop fishing for a day and i would work on the car. im buy the whole half shafts for the passanger and driver side. what do i need to do to complete this job. thanks for any help. will select best answer.

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a 32mm socket and a 1/2'' breaker bar, (the long ones)7mm socket and needle nose pliers, hammer, 17mm socketand nice size flat head screw driver, and a jack, and jack stand.first remove the center cap from the wheel(if you have one)put the socket on to the breaker bar, and PUSHING downwards break the lock on the cv nut. once you have done this to both sideslossen the lugs on the driver side rim, jack the car in the air, place your jack stand on the front support brace(big black bar under radiadtor)take your rim off, with the pliers remove the carter pin from the a-arm bolt., and loosen the bolt with the 17mm and drop the hub assembley. now with the assembly hanging there use the hammer and knock the cv inward untill its mostly out, your going to have to fight with it a little to pop it all the way out.next go under the car and with the flat head, wedge it between the cv shaft and the transmission, well turning the cv pry it out, and it will pop out.get the replament cv, slide it in, and then slam it in untill you feel it snap into place, then place the cv buck in to the hub assembly and losely put on the 32mm bolt.next using the jack lift the hub back up slowly untill it alomst reacehes the a-arm, pull the arm back down and secure it with its nut, Tighten, and replace the carter pin with a new one.put your rim back on, tighten your lugs, drop your car, and tighen the 32mm bolt with the beaker barjust repeat this for the other side and you just saved yourself about 500 bucks in work at a shop