Ok, now I know that I have come a bit late to the 80 series and it's unlikely that there is much new in the way of tips and tricks, but the axle end circlips are things that have always bugged me. Usually I flick them on with a pair of pliers and a small screwdriver. You maybe a set of circlip pliers would work, but I don't have any that will work with that type of clip. Well for some reason, this new truck was being mean to me. I couldn't get the damn clips on for love nor money. So I applied a cup of tea and thunk about it for a while. I came up with this. Man it works a treat. Takes seconds and no effort at all. Forget the fact that it's U bolt, that's academic, I need to make on up out of a piece of studding when ai get a second. Basically, it's a 30mm socket with a bolt through the middle, a washer and a nut on the end, all screwed into the end of the CV shaft. Put the circlip on first, line it all up and then turn the nut. It pushes the clip up the bevel and onto the shaft. Simples!! Sorry if that's been done before. I've never seen it.
Chris
Chris
I use a set of the round nosed circlip pliers & although it usually takes a couple of goes, I have always managed to get them on/off. But I will probably have a look for set of those flat nosed pliers to make it easier 
The socket must be nearly 3" deep. It's a stonker. Works lovelry. But it's like 50 points inside unlike a box spanner which is just 6 sided. The Milner nuts are not 'squared off' if that makes sense and simply will not go into the socket. I took the grinder to one and flattened the edges off. It fit's now. Bodge bodge. 
Look - "Incidentally wrt 54mm nuts, I found yesterday that the nice new professional socket that I have doesn't fit Milner nuts"
