Everything was going great and then I noticed that the CV stub came out when replacing the passenger side axle.

 

I have a couple of questions:

 

1.  Should I have been able to pull the stub out of the transmission? I would have thought that the circle clip would have prevented the axle stub form coming out.   The clip did not come off of the stub.

 

2.  Can I just reinsert the stub and will the clip compress as it is going in?

 

Note:  I but everything back together by just pushing the stub and CV axle back in.   Do I need to worry that the clip will not hold the the stub in?

 

Thanks for your help. 

It's not uncommon for the stub to pull out of a 4eat, you'll be fine just knocking it back in place. I've done it a couple times myself changing struts.

just try to keep things lined up to protect that seal in there.

Surprised me the first time it happened. This only happens with automatics, manual transmissions have a fixed stub axle.