Driveshaft removal

Just removing the drive shafts from my 1.5 GL, managed to get the offside one off by stopping the shaft spinning by using the brake (car is on stands, no wheels) but the nearside drive shift seems to spin even with the brake on. I put it in gear and still the same thing, am I missing something obvious? I can't get any leverage because the shaft spins and so does the hub nut itself. I put it down to having taken the other drive shaft out but having put it back in and bolted it up the N/S one still wants to spin.

Edit: I'm talking inner shaft here by the way.



I'm probably being stupid here but what am I doing wrong?


Thanks.

Some times the hub nuts are stupidly tight, ive broke tools trying to undo them, really you need the car on its wheels to loosen them, if you had vented discs its possible to wedge an old screw driver or similar against the caliper.

Yea you're supposed to have car on ground with wheels chocked, in gear, mate standing on brakes whilst you swing on a scaffold bar to crack the nut loose.

This is the lengh of bar I needed to undo mine, its best putting the wheels back on and putting the car on the floor incase you pull it of the jack/axel stands.
I use an old torque wrench in the scaffolding bar and a 6 sided socket.

Now that's a proper wrench