Drive shaft assistance required

[ultiman]

Gents, I should know the answer to this but dont recall the best way to change the CV joint cover rubbers at the gearbox end. Any suggestions?

[srreck]

Honestly, I think there is just one way to do it properly. You will need to remove the CV. There is a special tool for installing the new covers.
Cheers,

[02PRUV]

Buy one of these and you don't have to pull it apart.

http://www.amazon.com/Dorman-614-030-HELP-Universa...

[V8Dom]

that depends if you have a soft type cv boot or hard... the hard type will split!!

Dom

[crafty]

02PRUV said:

Buy one of these and you don't have to pull it apart.

http://www.amazon.com/Dorman-614-030-HELP-Universa...

cool.... not seen one of those before... here's a vid (with elevator music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1lxrkDgbrg

[ezakimak]

that looks like crap, stretches the boot so that it is no longer a tight fit over the joint and encorages a shop to just keep all the old greeas in the joint. no cleaning and repacking with new grease. no thanks

Edited by ezakimak on Wednesday 3rd August 11:01

[V8 Vum]

Working with Renault for many years...that was what was used but was not curved. The CV joint was dismantled & flooded with grease,reassembled then the boot was slid on and packed with grease. The boots returned easily to their original size. First time of doing it I was very sceptical, and it was a real struggle to push on, but it worked a treat.