CV boot replacement

Peabody > wrote in news:yBVhh.15521$gj2.5850
@newsfe23.lga:

> I appreciate everyone's advice on this. I had the work done this
> morning. I ended up just replacing the one bad outer boot with a
> Honda boot, and left the axles as is. Of course, I don't know for
> sure that he actually used a Honda boot, but that's what he agreed
> to do, and that's what I paid for.
>
> He drove the car before and after the repairs, and said everything
> else looked and felt fine. Since there was no financial advantage
> to doing both sides at the same time, I decided to just do the one
> that was bad.



Every two months or so, turn the steering wheel all the way to the side the
old outer boot is still on. This will both expose the outer joint boot and
spread the corrugations so as to display any cracking. This way you can
inspect the boot without having to get underneath the car.

Once the cracks get to about 1/8" deep, get the boot replaced. Waiting
until it splits is not smart.



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