Split Cv Boots!

[brizzi]

I found grease all on the inside of the left front wheel...

Does anyone know for sure if the front cv shafts out of a gtr will fit?

My wife and i are stressing because its our family car.

Any help much appreciated

[overpowered]

just buy one from nissan they are pretty cheap from memory and i bet they are same as gtr but just ask for a stagea one to be sure.

im talking about the rubber boot itself, not the actual cv joint

Edited June 27, 2007 by overpowered

[Stinky Rooster]

If its the same as anything (S1 I am assuming?) then it will be the same as R33 GTS-4. In my experience the GTR's have everything just a little chunkier. (front driveshafts for example)

Do us all a favour, and if you do get the Nissan one, can you ask the counter monkey to compare the part number to the GTR and GTS-4 and let us know the results?

Cheers

[Duncan]

hey mate you don't need a new driveshaft just a new boot. SHould be pretty cheap and some sort of generic one available

[Stinky Rooster]

If the boot has split, and the grease is all over the inside of the wheel, what sort of life expectancy do you give the CV? I would replace it, myself, just to be on the safe side. Have you ever seen the damage a CV does when it lets go?

[Duncan]

yeah true I guess it depends how long the boot has been split....

[brizzi]

Yeah you sure have a point there I will just get them reco'd,dont want to take any risks,with the car and the family!

Thanks for the info

[beastien]

For your info, the stagea outer boot kit part number is 39241-50A92, and FAST shows it as being the same

for the 260RS, GTS4 and GTR.

[brizzi]

Thanks dude See you now an again cruzn round the terrace newy,nice stagea man

[Stinky Rooster]

For your info, the stagea outer boot kit part number is 39241-50A92, and FAST shows it as being the same

for the 260RS, GTS4 and GTR.

You rock!

I don't suppose you got the same info for the CV themselves?

[beastien]

Thanks dude See you now an again cruzn round the terrace newy,nice stagea man

Cheers mate, that's what we're here for . Be good to meet up some time, you should cruze down to the SnS with the rest of us.

I'll have a look at the CV comparison later tonight, and see what the go is.

[ssshonky]

Just take it to any reputable CV speciallist around you and get them to do it for you

nice and easy.. less down time than doing it yourself

and depending on what the condition of the CV joint is when you take it apart .. it may or may not need servicing. Dont stress its all too easy! just a few hours waiting around for them to do it

[pixel8r]

Just take it to any reputable CV speciallist around you and get them to do it for you

nice and easy.. less down time than doing it yourself

and depending on what the condition of the CV joint is when you take it apart .. it may or may not need servicing. Dont stress its all too easy! just a few hours waiting around for them to do it

I second that. I had the same problem on mine - right cv boot. Took it to a CV joint specialist and had the boot replaced for $80. Apparently no problems with the cv joint itself. Hopefully yours is the same.

[Mr_RS4]

Has anyone actucally had their CV Joints replaced yet. (I'm particularly interested in hearing from Brisbane peoples). My boots are split and grease on the inside of the wheel. Now not ever having anything to do with CV's before (damn AWD FWD cars ) what are the costs like. And is it a job for any normal mechanic or is it better to see a CV workshop (see plenty of them in the yellow pages). My girlfriends pulsar is also in dire need of CV's too (because I just got the boots replaced on hers and the joints didn't last too much longer before the knocking started) so I just might as well kill all the birds with one stone.

[ssshonky]

if you can find a good ( reputable ) place then your FAR FAR better off just taking the cars to them and letting them do it. I have attempted to do the outer boot on a pulsar CV joint and it was a royal ass pain . these guys at the CV shops have

A) all the tools etc needed to do the job correctly

b) spare parts etc

c) the know how of what to do etc.

I know Dale ( stinky rooster ) has an abject fear of letting others do his mechanical work .. but I would dare say even he might agree with me on this matter.

CV joint place all the way

[Stinky Rooster]

^^yes, yes I do

CV joints FTL! Thios is why I have never (and probably never will) own a FWD car

[ssshonky]

though the feeling of pressing the grease into the hole where the splined shaft enters is oddly arousing!

[Stinky Rooster]

??WTF???

damn pulsar owners......

[Mr_RS4]

I don't think you guys read the post properly. I wasn't asking if it was an easy job for me to do but wether it would be better to take it to any normal mechanic or to take it to a specialised CV / Driveline workshop. Be fu**ed if I'm going to do something like this myself. And my cars rearley see a workshop either unless its something I really don't want to do.....this is one of those things. I really just wanted to know what costs are like.

[ssshonky]

Sorry for getting Off topic

Yeah I would take it to a C.V place. Because if you took it to your local mechanic he would probably just order in the parts from a CV place. My logic is that fixing CV joints is their ( the CV people ) bread and butter , so you would guess they would know them better than a standard mechanic.