Quick couple of questions for anyone that can offer some advice. This all pertains to my 95 GLE with 170K miles. A quick thanks to many of the other posts that have aided me in doing my own work on the car. Failure history for my vehicle since new, single fuel injector at 110K, alternator at 130k, rear O2 sensor and knock sensor 150K, rebuilt alternator at 165K, water pump and oil sending unit leaks at 169k.

My cv boots are torn on both axles. They have been that way for a bit and I have been waiting for the clicking to be forced to replace. No such luck so far. When is it too late to just regrease and install new boots? or is it just as much work to install new axles? Control arms seem fairly corroded, when do you begin to worry about too much corrosion and replacement is required? I also noticed a lot of flaking corrosion at the bolt location only on the front beam where the front engine mount connects, almost to the point It looks as if a couple good wacks might break the bolts free. The rest of the beam is perfect. Why such a problem at the bolts? Anyone else encounter this and have to change out this beam?

I presume much of the corrosion is due to midwest driving with snow and salt from the winters.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

Replace the axle... actually easier than repairing the boot. Reference Haynes Manual, and you'll see what I'm talking about. I replaced the axle on the left in my 97 GXE... after getting initial bolts loose, just make sure you line up the splines (threads) of the new axle. I put some transmission fluid over splines as lubricant. So far 30,000 later, so good.