androider

nevermind

You jogged my memory. I think I recall seeing a canvas or oilcloth cv boot at some point in my life... perhaps on one of my father's many old volkswagons I grew up with. Not quite as stylin' as leather though. What would you reccomend: swede (spell check) or patened? Seriously though, leather or innertube are good ideas. When I recently replaced the rear axle, it was frozen to the stub shaft that passes thru the suspension arm. The inboard side came away fine after removing the spring pin, but getting the outboard side apart was... very difficult. Had to break open the cv joint and pound out the stub shaft while putting the torch to it. I pounded out the spring pin on the inboard front axle today to see if it was frozen as well (they're supposed to slide apart easily, according to Haynes), and just my luck: stuck. There's a word that rhymes here and I may have uttered it at the time. Put the Kroil to it and hopefully tomorrow it will yield. I'm gonna go for the regular replacement boot if I can get the thing apart. If not, I may have to MacGuyver it... Thanks for all the suggestions:)

I'm looking to replace my deteriorating front inboard passenger side cv boot with a split boot, thus forgoing the need to remove the whole driveaxle. But I am having a hard time finding one. Its an '88 GL wagon 4WD. I just replaced one of the rear axles and the painful memories of frozen nuts and bleeding knuckles is too fresh. I know the downfalls of split boots, but my poor little suby is getting tired and I think the split boot would probably outlast the car (unfortunately). Any suggestions or ideas on where to look?