CV Boot Driver Side Outer

[SPAZZ]

you are fighting yourself!!! it is not that hard. leave the brake assembly alone. Leave spindle alone. Leave disc alone. Leave wheel bearing alone.

it will stay all attched to the control arms and just fold out of the way. I left you a message...waiting for you to call me like I told you if you had trouble.

you are jacking up the Tbar to relive pressure to take out the 4 bolts under the lower control arm to allow you to move the Lower ball joint bracket above the lower control arm instead of below it. Then when you lower the the jack the lower control arm will go to full droop allowing you to pull cv shaft out of the side you are working on by lifting up on the lower control arm and pulling the cv shaft out.

Stay calm. It is cake walk. I wish I was there to help out.

[Jonnie]

Well things did not go as planned and I still have a split CV boot, at least its only an inch.

So I had the idea to ask the local Isuzu dealer how much to repack the front bearings, which turned out to be $160. So I then dropped the other shoe and asked how much more to replace the outer CV boot at the same time, and they put me on hold, then came back and it would be an additional $540!!!? Fricken' you tear down the hub anyway?

Jonnie

[E-ZooZoo One]

I don’t mean this the wrong way - HONEST!
But I'll bet that $120 Boot Kit is sounding better and better, isn’t it?


Trust me; it’s VERY EASY to use
(If I can do it, just about anyone can!)

And with it you'll get absolutely everything you need to do four boots.

[SPAZZ]

Jonnie already has the parts, he just can not figure out how to get his VX tore apart to replace the boots. I've explained it, but in person is way better I guess.
Is there ANYONE CLOSE to him that could help him out and save him the dealers nightmaresh price ??????

[Jonnie]

Took another shot at it today. Theres good news and bad news.

After a trip to Harbor Freight, I was better equiped to get the nut off the upper ball and get the upper caliper bolt to loosen. Could not before. But the ball would not release (no puller) so it went back together and I threw on the split boot -damn screws. No, this is not a perminate fix. Took a test run and it all seems fine, First highway trip in 2 weeks.

The old boot and bands come off so easy, its the rest thats hard. The joint looked really clean so I was a bit happy.

Figuring to pull the hub and rotor, and get some ball joint pullers, and do it like the manual.

Jonnie

[Joe_Black]

I'd be more than happy to help, just may be a weekend or two as the job schedule is pulling major vacuum right now.