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Date:         Tue, 5 Mar 96 20:05 CST
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From:         khooper@wsp1.wspice.com (Ken Hooper)
Subject:      CV Boots

>Also, how difficult (time and tools) is it to replace a boot on the cv >joint? Mine is cracked.

I was doing mine today (bay window). It's not expensive--$6.00 at Sears for the tool, $2.50 for a huge tube of grease, $15.00 for the boot kit. Get two kits and do the whole axle. The kit has a chintzy tube of grease with it but I like to make a *real* mess. ;)

It isn't difficult but it's damned nasty. You never saw so much muck everywhere. Just take out the bolts with the tool (ten each, upper and lower?), the axle falls out, disassemble and clean out, reassemble and remount.

I expect if you were exceedingly careful of grit you could change the boots out without disassembling. That would be much more elegant but you couldn't inspect the joints that way.

--Ken '71 Bus


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