Axle seal?

[John Lagnese]

I am wondering if that may be why that leaking passenger side seal  went
south so quickly. It is a visible drip drip drip.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: thejimrose [mailto:thejimrose at gmail.com]
  Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:47 PM
  To: John Lagnese
  Cc: Vittorio Bares; quattro at audifans.com; cobram at juno.com;
djacardoso at gmail.com
  Subject: Re: Axle seal?


  same as the outers i'd guess - torn boot = bad.


  On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, John Lagnese <jlagnese at massed.net> wrote:

    How do you check the inners? Loose if off? How if they're attached?
    John

    -----Original Message-----
    From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
    [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Vittorio Bares
    Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:22 PM
    To: thejimrose; quattro at audifans.com; cobram at juno.com;
    djacardoso at gmail.com
    Subject: RE: Axle seal?


    Beware of the cheap chinese rebuilds. They won't hold up 1/4 the time
    your originals did.

    The inner joints seem to be ok - but the outers warrant a replacement
    w/german components.

    Spend a little more today so you can save $ tomorrow, BTDT.

    Vittorio -

    -----Original Message-----
    From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
    On Behalf Of thejimrose
    Sent: 2008-02-28 01:08 PM
    To: quattro at audifans.com; cobram at juno.com; djacardoso at gmail.com
    Subject: Re: Axle seal?

    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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