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It looks like the assembly connecting the front right driveshaft back to the front diff has shagged itself. The rubber boot has torn and it has sprayed its grease (lightish colour, quite thick) in a big circle across the underside [1993 GTR V-Spec]. Update - have attached pic of the offending item and its location, in case someone needs to correct me on my diagnosis.

So I'm thinking I need to replace the CV joint and was wondering a about a few things:

Where could I pick up a new one? Do second-hand ones pass through these forums very often? How much should I expect to pay?

Anyone know a good honest workshop around the inner brisbane area? The last one I went to was good, but they had no experience with a GTR and ended up spending more than a day and half's labour on changing some bushes. Also, how long would it take to replace the joint?

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There's a place I go to in coorparoo (down the road from me) who have done some good stuff - they built me some custom driveshafts for my T12 bluebird using Evo shafts and larger cages- was good quality, seems to know what fits GTR off the top of his head too. I'll look them up for you if you like. Where're you located? I also have spare CV internals but would have to check they'd fit the application. Are you sure you need to replace the actual joint?

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There's a place I go to in coorparoo (down the road from me) who have done some good stuff - they built me some custom driveshafts for my T12 bluebird using Evo shafts and larger cages- was good quality, seems to know what fits GTR off the top of his head too. I'll look them up for you if you like. Where're you located? I also have spare CV internals but would have to check they'd fit the application. Are you sure you need to replace the actual joint?

Thanks, Coorparoo is a pretty good location so it would be good if you let me know of someone good there.

I'm not positive the whole joint needs replacing. The car does still drive, though I haven't pushed it to engaging the 4wd since it blew. When it first went it seems to almost lock the right front wheel twice but from then on it has just spun freely. Might do best to take it in and see how badly its shagged. If you or anyone has pieces available as a back up that would be useful.

if it is only just the boot that has split generaly you dont have to replace the whole shaft just the boot. It shouldnt be to bad to do to just replace the boot i done one today on a 32gtr and i didnt find it to bad to replace. i just removed the front hub assembly, seperated the cv joint, cut the old boot off, slid the new boot down the shaft, reasembled the cv joint, slid the boot down over the joint, clamped it down and refitted the hub.

Thanks, Coorparoo is a pretty good location so it would be good if you let me know of someone good there.

I'm not positive the whole joint needs replacing. The car does still drive, though I haven't pushed it to engaging the 4wd since it blew. When it first went it seems to almost lock the right front wheel twice but from then on it has just spun freely. Might do best to take it in and see how badly its shagged. If you or anyone has pieces available as a back up that would be useful.

The place is A&F driveshaft repair, in clarence st, coorparoo, next to the train station. I'm just down the road so if you wanted to you could drop the shaft out in my garage and check the condition of the CV joint. If it needs replacing or work the shop can do it in a day and wouldn't be more than 100 bucks worst case scenario. If your joint is OK then you can simply grab a new boot and grease for about 25 bucks and your sorted. If this sounds like a plan then give me a bell/ text on 0403 486 876

Cheers

Andrew

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