If you grease the axle bearing and bushing as recommended by Toyota. It's near impossible to pull axle hard and long enough, to settle grease and a get ture snap ring gap. But one can assemble, drive to settle, and then come back and just hand pull the axle with a bolt.Also, I never had an issue pulling the axle stub out to get the C-clip on, I just threaded a bolt in there and pulled on it by hand. No problem.