help CV boot is busted OPEN!
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help CV boot is busted OPEN!
has anyone ever changed their CV boot? i just saw today, that my passenger side cv boot is bust open! if this stays open, what can it cause? will i be OK for a while? or what can go wrong? worked a lot on cars, but this is the first for cv boots, so i wanna make sure i know everything before doing so, and how much you think a dealer or mechanic will cost me? is the cv boot pretty simple itself to install? anything would help, appreciate it..
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Re: help CV boot is busted OPEN!
Originally posted by 88ghost
has anyone ever changed their CV boot? i just saw today, that my passenger side cv boot is bust open! if this stays open, what can it cause? will i be OK for a while? or what can go wrong? worked a lot on cars, but this is the first for cv boots, so i wanna make sure i know everything before doing so, and how much you think a dealer or mechanic will cost me? is the cv boot pretty simple itself to install? anything would help, appreciate it..
has anyone ever changed their CV boot? i just saw today, that my passenger side cv boot is bust open! if this stays open, what can it cause? will i be OK for a while? or what can go wrong? worked a lot on cars, but this is the first for cv boots, so i wanna make sure i know everything before doing so, and how much you think a dealer or mechanic will cost me? is the cv boot pretty simple itself to install? anything would help, appreciate it..
You should get it replaced or fixed. If the boot still has greese inside it then it will last for a while im not sure. But i highly recomend you replace it because if there is no greese the axle can freeze up and it can cause a bad accident if you are driving it on the freeway, or even just going to get some grocery's. When i seen my friends cv boot getting replaced it looked easy. You can do it yourself it is easy but its difficult to take off the parts.
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I had the same CV boot bust, well it was the inner boot. I just had the entire axel replaced, good idea to replace the entire thing. Have them get a remanufactured part, it is alot cheaper 
. Oh and I had a mess of grease in my engine bay, it sucked to clean...
-joe
. Oh and I had a mess of grease in my engine bay, it sucked to clean...-joe
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