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Originally Posted by jmitro
Changed my leaking CV joint boots this weekend and this writeup summarizes it well.
I spent an hour and a half trying to get the stub axle out of the hub.
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As I've mentioned in another thread on this topic, if you are changing just the rubber boots and not the axle assembly itself, it's even easier to just pull the axle from the outer CV joint and not remove the CV joint from the hub. There's a couple of minor tricks to this and it's best done with a couple of sets of hands but it was hands down the easiest CV boot change I've ever done. I prefer to re-boot CV's on my workshop bench but not if I have to spend hours extracting an axle assembly.
That and I didn't have a 12-point 36mm socket on hand!
