Patent ID: 7356899

Claim:
A tool for disengaging a universal joint from a drive shaft, said drive shaft including a yoke with first and second, opposed spaced flanges, each flange including a passageway for receipt of an arm of a universal joint, each said passageway including an axis generally transverse to the plane of said passageway, each flange including an outside face and a lateral side edge, said universal joint arms each including a bearing cap for compatible insertion into a said receiving passageway of said shaft, said tool comprising, in combination: a drive rod including a drive rod axis and an outer end; and a cup mounted on the end of the drive rod opposite the outer end, said cup including a peripheral flange surface, said flange surface sized for engaging a first flange outside face of said shaft by surrounding the passageway of said flange and not extending over or into said passageway of said first flange, said cup including an axis generally coaxially alienable with the axis of said passageway of said first flange and with the axis of said drive rod, said cup including an open end and a counter-bore for receipt of at least a part of an arm of said universal joint from said passageway of said first flange, said cup further including an outside peripheral a partially circumferential, axially extending rib for fitting over a said lateral side of said first flange to align the cup generally coaxially with the axis of said passageway of said first flange whereby said arm in said passageway may be driven into said cup counterbore by engagement of said outer end of said drive rod with a driving mechanism.