How To Replace Front Axle Shaft 2007-16 GMC Acadia

I'm gonna remove the wheel. Use a 22-millimeter socket, and pull the wheel off. Now I'll take this axle nut off. Use a 34-millimeter socket. Take these two nuts off. Use a 24-millimeter socket. Now we're gonna take these bolts out. Just use a hammer and give it a tap. There we go. Do the same for the other one. There we go. All right. So that I don't put too much tension on the brake hose itself I'm gonna take this bracket off. Just use a 10-millimeter socket. Take this bolt out. And you don't want to bend this hose too much but that will give you a little slack.

Now we can slide the knuckle out. Now you can just take a punch and a hammer, just tap this in a little bit, and just slide this out, just like that. Now I'll take a pry bar and just go in between the axle and the mount over here near the engine, or part of the engine block, and just pry it out. Now, on the passenger side, you're not gonna have any fluid behind there. If you were doing this on the driver's side, you're gonna need to put a drain bucket, because you'll have some fluid come out, some transmission fluid. And just slide that out.

There's a spacer right here. Just take a small screwdriver, just get underneath that, and you just swap it over to the new part, and just slide it on like that. And take the axle, line it up and push it on. All right, that's all the way in. And then you slide this through the wheel bearing, through the knuckle. Might have to twist this a little bit. That's lined up. There we go.

Then I'll take the knuckle and just line it up. You're gonna have to pull it up a little bit and try to line the bolt up. There you go. Get the other one in. Just give it a little tap. You don't have to hammer it in all the way. Then take the nuts, get those started. And then we can tighten these down. Then we can torque these nuts to 144 foot-pounds. Now just take this brake hose bracket and line this back up. Put this bolt on.

If you felt uncomfortable taking this line off or this bracket off, you could always take the caliper off and hang the caliper on the strut assembly. And then tighten this bolt down and put the axle nut on. And then I'm gonna torque this to 173 foot-pounds. I'm gonna put the tire on. Now I'm gonna torque these lug nuts to 140 foot-pounds in a cross pattern, or a star pattern, to tighten the wheel down evenly. Now go around again. Just double-check.