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Old 02-23-2011, 08:13 PM
Peter D Peter D is offline
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Guys,

I had been reading this thread and was planning to do the outer front CV boots on my '04 E53 when the weather warmed, at 118k they looked like they were ready to pop...
Enter "Murphy's Law", I had both outer boots fail this week, given the cold I had to have a local (German only) indy shop do the outer boots today.

After reading this thread I was sure they had to do this the long way by following the DIY outlined in the sticky or pull the inner boot via the 30 minute method and re boot the outer CV joint that way.

They did neither......, the inner boot bands are original and the spindle nut was not removed. To my surprize it appears they cut the damaged outer boots off, and disassebled the outer CV joint to seperate the shaft, re booted and reassembled. 4.2 hours labor for the total job.

Anyone heard of this method, it seems logical??
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