How To Change Cv Boot On 73 Volkswagen Super Beetle

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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:22 pm Mail subject: Replace CV Boots

I just constitute out that i have a torn Cv boot How hard are they to supersede? How practise y'all go about doing it?

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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:29 pm Post subject field:

Not difficult. If the boot tore, you should make clean off all the contaminated grease and repack it. This should be washed every 30,000 miles so if you're gonna do one you might every bit well do the other iii as well. You'll need a 12 point bit to get the bolts out, circlip pliers, a tube of moly CV grease, a CV boot (I'd exercise all 4 if they look onetime), a torque wrench to put them back on, and a coil of paper towels. Here's a handy link to get them dorsum together: http://world wide web.outfrontmotorsports.com/cv_assembly.htm

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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:45 am Post field of study:

Thanks for the answer Then I accept to remove the axel to do information technology?

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Posted: Sunday Jan 23, 2011 v:38 am Post bailiwick:

Yes you will remove both "half shafts" to do the servicing on them I commonly buy a re-pack kit to do them from my favorite parts supplier for about $10-15 each. It comes with new bolts, grease, boot, circlip and washer. Save the serrated "belleville" washers and the "torque spreaders" that the bolts go through. .

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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:26 am Post subject field:

73 KAFER wrote:

Similar they said higher up, R and R of cv boots is not difficult. It is howevever very muddied. Wearing latex gloves come up in handy when packing in the grease. Just a hint.

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I hear everyone maxim R and R...i know its not rest and relaxation...wtf is it?
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Posted: Sun January 23, 2011 7:28 am Post subject field:

kangaboy wrote:

73 KAFER wrote:

Similar they said above, R and R of cv boots is non hard. It is howevever very dirty. Wearing latex gloves come in handy when packing in the grease. Just a hint.

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I hear anybody proverb R and R...i know its not rest and relaxation...wtf is information technology?

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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:49 am Postal service subject: Re: Replace CV Boots

scottioc wrote:

I merely establish out that i have a torn Cv boot
How hard are they to supersede? How do you become about doing it?

What twelvemonth is your VW? If yours is a 1968 manual manual, or a non-Us model, or if you lot posted in the "incorrect" section, you might have a swing axle version. For those (they're non CVs), there are split boots available; y'all just cut the one-time one off, install the split boot correctly, and tiptop upward the gear oil level.
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Posted: Lord's day Jan 23, 2011 xi:46 am Post subject:

His other posts states he purchased a 75 super. So as long as it'due south not imported it should have CV boots.

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Posted: Sun January 23, 2011 8:29 pm Post subject:

In my earlier days when "I did not know no better" I removed CVs/axles to clean and re-kicking and paint them axles real pretty. By the fourth dimension reassembly came everything was all mixed up ( did not know it mattered then) but nothing always happened to them. Of class now I read the manuals but I withal pigment my axles real pretty.LOL Marker _________________ 1973 Protrude #3 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=775620Kafer-Loving cup vintage road racer

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Posted: Dominicus January 23, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject area:

http://www.superbeetles.com/ On the left click "Tech Talk with Rick" Scroll down until you come across CV joint maintenance. Better yet, buy the bug me video. _________________ John At that place is no distinctly American criminal course - except Congress. Marker Twain 69 issues - "The Grey Ghost"

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Posted: Mon January 24, 2011 xi:17 pm Postal service subject:

its really a 75 standard beetle apartment window. I am new to this and was dislocated about super/standard at first. Thank you everyone!

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Posted: Lord's day Feb 27, 2011 7:forty pm Mail bailiwick:

i was trying to remove my outer cv boot since it was torn for my 1970 and everything was going fine from unbolting to taking the clip retainer but when i went to go slide everything off. it seems to get jammed i tried hammering it out but nothing. has this happened to anyone? whatd they practice. im thinking bout but grabbing the manus piece and making those grooves a piddling wider and deeper and going over again but im non sure if itll work or itll intermission it?

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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 ten:28 am Postal service subject:

the joint should just slip right off once the circlip is removed. if it doesn't, yous may demand to put it in a store press. i've only always had to practice this in one case, it usually just pulls right apart.

while youre in at that place, i would popular open each cv articulation, clean all the pieces with paper towels, and audit for excessive wear. you're looking for pitting or scoring. if yous see any, it's time to replace that joint. at that place'south always nos lobro joints for sale in the classifieds. exercise this to only one joint at a time! you don't want to intermix parts. when you're repacking them with grease, the key to success is clean clean clean! put a plastic grocery bag over each end as you consummate it, to avoid contaminants getting in at that place. as well, do both axles, don't exist lazy and just do the one side that's torn. do both rear axles - this is a regular maintenance activity just similar irresolute your engine oil.

lastly, employ only a german made kicking!!! i can't say this enough times. oeveedub.com sells german cv boot kits, they're not expensive. apply a cheap no-proper name or chinese boot and guaranteed y'all -will- be doing this job over again in under a year. search the forums for cip1 cv boots if you want some more testify. if it doesn't say "fabricated in germany" on it - that means information technology isnt!!

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It is howevever very muddy.

this is an understatement!! it isn't very dirty- it's downright nasty and horrible. which is why you want to exercise right the first time, and only use good quality parts, so you don't accept to do it again soon!

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