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I just went through the same thing with my ST. I had it up on jack stands and after trying rope around the CV cup, and everything else I could think of, banging away finally worked.

There is a snap ring around the drive, it takes a sharp rap and it will pop out. It will come out, I swore I was not doing anything but I beat on it for about 20 minutes and it finally popped.

I bought a new CV drive from the store for 78 bucks, so IMO just buy a new one. I don't know what your situation is financially, but it seems the logical choice.

Awesome suggestions, really active community, you guys rock.

My thought is once the car is put in gear, there is a load placed on the engine from the transmission. Once that transfer of energy to drive the transmission happens, the motor has to work a bit harder and that is translated into vibration. I would suspect it could be resonance from the transmission at that specific idle level, so changing the idle might work. It would change the frequency of the coupling between the engine and the transmission. I also think engine mounts would work as well. More then likely a combination of the two.

I don't have a lot of experience with working on cars, and changing out the engine mounts seems tough. I would imagine I need a hoist to hold the engine up when I changed the mounts? I have a manual but it does not go into detail.

Could anyone give me a high level breakdown of what I will need to do this?

I have a 96 St AT. When I am in drive with the breaks applied, I get vibration in the steering wheel. It's not real bad, but I notice it.

I just replaced the drivers side CV and dumped some AT fluid out when I pulled it. I Checked the levels and it reads good for HOT, that was a little weird as I expected to have to add more.

I have been driving around this weekend testing the new CV, and the vibration is really noticeable now.

I put it in neutral and it goes away. Every other gear including reverse vibrates. Park does not.

I ran a search for this symptom before I posted, and this is my first post, so hi!