well i just noticed that one of my cv boots is torn. the grease still looks clean but my car has about 190,000 miles. how long is the life of a cv shaft? i'm wondering if it would be worth it to just buy a new shaft instead of the boots.

 

Yes...much better to get a whole new shaft, IMHO.

 

If you happen to look at your CV boots daily, and they have just split yesterday then you would be safe installing new boots. If its been more than a week those bearings are likely cooked.
Just jack it up, remove the brakes, disconnect the strut from the steering knuckle and pull the axel out so you can disassemble it,thoroughly clean it and repack the bearings, install the new boots and finally reverse the process.
Do not use split boots. They will fail.

Now at 190k miles I'd be replacing the things. I wouldn't want to do that job twice.

Talk to Marty at Raxels 1-800-257-8192 and mention you are an Org member. Great guy and very good pricing on NEW - not reground assemblies.
www.raxels.com

 

I had this problerm a few days ago, exept i had grease spitting out into my rim.

I am just gona change my hole axle because i noticed the outer bearing has a slight play in it.

 

I used a split boot on my brothers Honda Accord ~60k miles ago (he didn't want to replace the axle)...no problems yet

 

Thats impressive.. you've been lucky to get that kind of mileage out of a splt boot. Usually the adhesive holding the "split" closed gets contaminated at install (dirt grease boogers) and lets go after a while.

This is one of those jobs I don't want to be doing more than once!

Cheers!

 

a friend of mine went through 3 axels that he bought from Raxels... he had non stop problems with them, but then he went to Autozone and never had a single problem, cost him only $55 after core swap!

im doing mine this weekend and im gettin it through Autozone.

Ant

 

How long ago did this happen? What problems did he have?
I'm curious because till now I've heard nothing but good things about Raxels, and Marty has been fantastic to work with.