[s-cars] [s-cars} Good Deal on New GKN/Lobro Front Axles

[Tom Green]

If your vehicle is clean underneath, you shouldn't get dirty on an  
axle replacement,
but definitely will on a boot replacement and joint repack.  The  
economics of this are
compelling for just changing the axles if you don't like the dirty  
boot replacement job.

The case for stocking the RossatoBin is less compelling, without some  
hint they
are needed.  All three vehicles on my block are on original axles at  
200K, 145K,
and 113K.   Or, that could be making a case that a set should be  
available here.  :-)

Tom

> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:00:24 -0500
> From: "Robert Rossato" <rossato.qlist at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Good Deal on New GKN/L?bro Front Axles
> To: "Douglas Landaeta" <dlandaeta at gmail.com>
> Cc: S-Car-List <s-car-list at audifans.com>
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> I'm sure there's a fair amount of variability.  I've heard of folks  
> running
> 180k+ miles on the original CV joints.  In my case, both outer  
> front boots
> split two S-fests ago at just over 100k miles.  No noise at the time,
> so I only replaced the boots along with quick clean & repack.   
> Wasn't a
> bad job at all.  Now my left side is starting to make some fairly  
> noticeable
> noise, and car is at 120k miles.  Not sure if it's inner or outer.   
> Given
> the history of a previous torn boot it's possible it's outer, but  
> it doesn't
> become more noticeable when turning, so maybe inner.  Who knows,  
> and at $169
> for whole axle, who cares.  And it's less effort than changing an
> individual CV joint.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On 2/19/08, Douglas Landaeta <dlandaeta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So about how long do these last? I had new ones at about 80K miles  
>> under
>> ext.warranty. Should I prepare for another set at 160K under 'normal'
>> driving? Just had an outer boot done - 1.5 hours of labor - but  
>> I'm glad I
>> didn't do it.
>>
>> Doug
>> 94 S4