dgdsm
10+ Year Contributor
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- Aug 24, 2008
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Tarzana,
California
My whole front left wheel area has multiple problems. The biggest one is: I opened it up a couple of weeks ago, and found that the outer CV boot was split and broken, and most/all of the grease had come out. Right now, what I have in there is some CRC CV joint grease, and a makeshift/ghetto boot repair with vinyl wrap, gorilla tape, and zip ties. There aren’t the noise symptoms of a bad outer CV joint, so I probably caught it in time before a lot of contaminants got in there. I’m trying out different materials and adhesives to hold it together better, but at best I think I can just go with this setup for a couple of hundred miles.
It used to be that you could do a “Split Boot” CV boot repair, but it seems no one sells these kits nowadays. There is a universal Split Boot repair kit available from Walmarts, but I don’t know if this is the correct size for the Eclipse Spyder 2g wheels. The only compatible parts in the parts stores are the Unifit CV boot kits. A parts shop I spoke to recently says I’ll just have to eventually replace the axle, and it’s easier to do that than to only replace the CV boot.
Any ideas/ suggestions/advice? I’ve watched some YT videos on replacing an axle shaft, and I was practicing on a 2g front left axle in the JY today. On this one YT video he just folded out the hub to take out the old axle, but it seems like it might not be all that simple for a 2g dsm. I’m guessing that I’ll also need an alignment if I replace the axle. I’d rather just replace the boot if that’s possible.
It used to be that you could do a “Split Boot” CV boot repair, but it seems no one sells these kits nowadays. There is a universal Split Boot repair kit available from Walmarts, but I don’t know if this is the correct size for the Eclipse Spyder 2g wheels. The only compatible parts in the parts stores are the Unifit CV boot kits. A parts shop I spoke to recently says I’ll just have to eventually replace the axle, and it’s easier to do that than to only replace the CV boot.
Any ideas/ suggestions/advice? I’ve watched some YT videos on replacing an axle shaft, and I was practicing on a 2g front left axle in the JY today. On this one YT video he just folded out the hub to take out the old axle, but it seems like it might not be all that simple for a 2g dsm. I’m guessing that I’ll also need an alignment if I replace the axle. I’d rather just replace the boot if that’s possible.
