As far as I know, it's still righty tighty-lefty loosey. I just had a shop replace an axle for me and I saw the mechanic use an air ratchet for the 12pt. bit. I thought he was going to break it or strip the bolts, but I guess it worked fine. If you don't have one then you might need a breaker bar to connect to the bit or try soaking the bolts with some pb blaster first.

 

thanx it actually was counter clockwise.
i got to change out both axles but i broke another one while test driving it.
fkn control arm is killing me>:[

 

What exactly did you break??