Bought an early style 8 3/4 rearend with the nut on the outside of the brake drum. How do you remove the axles on those toyes of rearends? I have pulled the cotter pin and removed the nut, but the axle won't slide out. Any ideas?

I thought that I read before that those axles were a real pisser. The method requires a slide hammer to remove the shafts.

They use a special drum/hub puller.I bought mine on the bay and its SnapOn.It bolts to the wheel studs and there is a center piece that threads down to the part the big nut goes on.Then it gets tightened and you smack the handle that goes on the end with a big hammer.The drums and stub shaft pops off.Then the axles can be unbolted almost like a ewg 8 3/4.They can be a real bear to get off sometimes .Ive done a bunch as mt 57 and the kids 62 had them.Rocky

in the car you can loosen the nut and drive a few figure 8s and it will come loose also

those axle can be swaped over to some modern flanged axle also

my early A-body housing had them

I replace with moser axles and green bearings and a 74 chunk

A pictorial:

http://www.ch300imp.com/brakedrum_removal.htm