Axle seal?

[thejimrose]

while that is true, i had a different experience.  i did all 4 boots on my
a4 when i did all 8 front control arms as a 'might as well while it's
apart'.  i WILL NEVER do cv boots again. it's very messy FING PITA and while
you can save a few $ the boot kits are surprisingly expensive [even mail
order]. plus  i got the wrong ones about 4 times, which added to the fiasco.


if you do the boots, and another reason not to, is that when you take the cv
apart make sure you stamp / mark the faces when it's assembled [i didn't
know this] because although the parts LOOK symmetrical they fit together 1
way. which took about 2 hours to sort out on one of them. like some kind of
billet rubiks cube.

on my car the boot kits were about 50 ea. while a remanned axle is like 150.
TOTALLY worth it, imo to plug n play the axle,

ymmv
jim


> If you're talking about the grease boot, then no, there is no reason to
> change the entire axle, the boots are replaceable.  Depending on the
> application, some rebuilds are so cheap that shops will just swap them
> out instead of bothering to change the boot.
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