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Old 05-31-2015, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Tomdownunder View Post
so I am hoping for several years of trouble free motoring.
Don't bank on it. Not sour, however these are beautiful and enjoyable vehicles to drive when they work but they are more of an investment than a trouble free experience.

As ants said the boots are probably gone so you will need to replace both front half-shafts and CV boots. If you're mechanically minded you can get just the CV joints from ECS tuning for around USD$160 however you will need to go on realoem.com to find the part number and search by part number.

Also expect to be up for new cooling system parts.

If you're not mechanically minded you can normally find the parts cheaper online and just get your local indy to do the work - realoem.com is your friend.
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