my experience on an 88 IFS: If its stock, 'easiest' is to drop the third member. Make sure you have a friend around to help with this. Detach the drive shaft, remove the three hanger bolts, remove the dozen CV axle bolts, let the whole differential drop out. When its out, put a nut on the end of each of three adjacent bolts, drive them out, and use a 1/2" drill to enlarge the holes a little. This will facilitate future removal, installs for CV axles. You'll probably have to remove the shock bolt as well. To me, this was the easiest and most str8 forward way to get the CV out, if the three bolts are not already drilled out of the tulip flanges. Just my two-cents...