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Originally Posted by ake53
hey how's the cv boot? I need to do it on passenger side. and my indy quoted 250 if axel comes off. would i be able to do it on my own without air tools?
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Yup, RickyBobby pretty much answered it to the T. Now for some of my advice... If done this job for the 12th time that day. Now 8 times, I did it the way TIS says to do it. That is to pull the wheel bearing from the hub, unclip the boot to expose the CV joint and pound the crap out of it until it comes off. Now doing it this way, it took me about 2.5 hours to do it. The hitch I always ran into was pulling the joint over the c-clip and the splines. Sometimes it was 1 good blow and bang it went other times... lets just say I needed a half bottle of Johnnie Walker Red (Yeah, wasn't even worthy of whipping out the Black, Green, or Blue, I just needed to get hammered... No pun intended). After I found the way to do it in 30 mins... it was a blessing and a DOH moment.
IMHO, it is easier to remove the whole axle and work on it from the bench. Removing the 3 point joint from its splines is a whole hell of a lot easier than removing the CV joint. Once you get that sucker off, you just slide the boots off and slide them back on. I normally dunk the whole thing in solvent to remove all the old grease and then use compressed air to blow it all out. Then I start greasing the CV joint, moving it around the distribute the grease.
This way for me doesn't take me a half hour though, more like an hour twenty unless if I am putzing around looking for more trouble (Hmmm... I could paint the calipers, maybe I should rebuild them. Hmmm I should really change that... yadda yadda yadda. Then it takes me 2 hours, haha.
So, some tips and tricks.
Like I said, removing the whole shaft is easier.
When reinstalling, lube the CV joint with the grease, fit the boot and tighten the clamps.
The inner boot, tighten the clamp on the shaft and grease the bearing with half the grease. When you install the inner shaft back in, do not fit the boot yet. Just get it in and align the splines to the wheel hub.
Once it is in, tuck the boot back and fill with the remaining grease. Trust me, if you pack all the grease in there at once, it will just become a mess. Once all the grease is in, fit the end of the boot and tighten the clamp. Once it is in, your ready to put everything back together.
Hope this helps.
Contact RB or me if you have any problems.