I posted a few weeks ago about some unknown goo leaking behind my driver side tires.
It was quickly identified as cv grease leaking from the inner cv boots.
After some careful inspection, it seemed to be spinning out from where the boot meets the inner axle joint. Seeing as the boots weren’t cracked or broken, I pushed off repairing them until I had a weekend to devote to it.
Fast forward to earlier this week, and I happened to hear a single clunk while backing out of a parking space with the wheel car to one side. So this weekend was as good as any.
I don really have the tools, or patience, to remove the cv axles to replace the boots, and it’s a violation of my apartment lease to perform such a repair anyway. So I went the route of separating the boot, letting the old grease drain out (it was thicker than dish soap, but thinner than pudding), before pumping new grease into the joint, and filling the boot, before clamping it back onto the cv joint. While not the best job, I did my best to se a grease gun to force what I could into the joint.
Drivers side had 3-4oz of grease in it, the passenger side was dry, except for the little big coating the parts under the boot.
No more clunk when steering hard to the left, and so begins the death watch to see if I did enough to get some added mileage or of them.
Starting mileage: 119,xxx
It was quickly identified as cv grease leaking from the inner cv boots.
After some careful inspection, it seemed to be spinning out from where the boot meets the inner axle joint. Seeing as the boots weren’t cracked or broken, I pushed off repairing them until I had a weekend to devote to it.
Fast forward to earlier this week, and I happened to hear a single clunk while backing out of a parking space with the wheel car to one side. So this weekend was as good as any.
I don really have the tools, or patience, to remove the cv axles to replace the boots, and it’s a violation of my apartment lease to perform such a repair anyway. So I went the route of separating the boot, letting the old grease drain out (it was thicker than dish soap, but thinner than pudding), before pumping new grease into the joint, and filling the boot, before clamping it back onto the cv joint. While not the best job, I did my best to se a grease gun to force what I could into the joint.
Drivers side had 3-4oz of grease in it, the passenger side was dry, except for the little big coating the parts under the boot.
No more clunk when steering hard to the left, and so begins the death watch to see if I did enough to get some added mileage or of them.
Starting mileage: 119,xxx
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