wheelsup » Just the part that goes into the hub. Then tighten it down.
Also they are making this too hard.
That is all you need to do. Do it gently (small taps with hammer) and it’ll pop right out. No prying needed. You are pressing on a transaxle for pete’s sake, they make them out of strong metal 
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If you are worried, make a wedge out of wood and go to it!
P.S. There is no damage 
How to Pop Out Axles the Easy Way
therealmurdawagon » Hello there folks! So i just discovered this problem too, trying to change my driver’s side axle, I spent 4 hours getting nowhere with a pray bar, screw driver, you name it. Finally thanks to some of your responses, I came across the post about using a 5/8 chisel, so i went to Home Depot, bought a COLD CHISEL SET one of them was a 5/8 which is small enough to get in between the tranny and the axle, and its thick enough and it is NOT a wood chisel, banged it with a hammer two times, and it came right out, in 5 minutes!
Hope this helps anyone out there who wants to give up and tow your car to your mechanic, saves lots of money!!!!
erikv11 » You can also cut a triangular wedge out of wood, people have reported that works well. Most axles will just pop right out with the tapered wedge, the stuck ones obviously require more work. Also you aren’t prying, more like pushing in both directions. Tap the wedge straight up until the axle pops out. No prying allowed!
jimmy57 » That slide weight looks WAY too wimpy to me. Maybe you could attach the puller shaft to a chain and leave a little bit of slack in the chain when you attach it. The push the car off the jack stands and have that snatch the axle out.
Seriously, the last time I had one I thought was going to break me or the trans before it came out, I put the little straw thingy on some penetrating spray and tapped a chisel in and then stuck the straw in there and sprayed a good squirt of the lube. Rotated a half turn and repeated. I waited a few minutes to allow my BP and heart rate to fall to normal and then pried and it popped out. The spray had gotten in. That car had more than 200K miles and had never had the axles out. Plenty of powdery rust in the splines to keep the circlip from being able to move inward to release.
