Eprisoncells

I'm working on a 2001 Outback and the removal of the halfshaft and everything went smooth. Then when I was suspecting snap rings I couldn't seem to find one. What is the best way to at least remove the outer cv joint? I'm figuring it may just pound out, but I don't exactly have a vise I could use. Any other helpful options? Thanks

Thank you very much Nomad, it is greatly appreciated. Turns out it doesn't too complex at all, at least by the way you described it. I imagine I'll be hacking away at it this Saturday and hopefully all goes well. We live just under an hour south of Erie. Thanks again for the tip.

After lurking the board through an abundant amount of resources and helpful tips, I guess the first post should be a 'dumb question' one. As it would seem this problem is fairly common among subaru's; we own a 2001 2.5L outback, and while taking one of the spark plug boots out it was completely covered in oil along with the well leading down to the plug. Now, I have read here how it is more than likely a gasket of some sort, which is a given, but seeing as I know squat about these cars I simply just wanted to clean out the oil the safest way possible and replace the plugs (since they are so cheap) to hopefully improve the performance of the car until the girlfriend does get it fixed. I've done valve gaskets on my Intrepid before, but when I look at the subaru engine it just looks like another language to me. Any advice in advance would be greatly appreciated.