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For all of you that have been dealing with this crazy weather especially vehicles with higher miles I highly suggest you check all of your ball joint boots, cv axle boots for cracks, tears, leaking grease. If any rips then just a matter of time before you have issue. This cold weather makes them wear/tear/crack much faster.
I always check when I do oil changes, brakes, etc. I just did my brakes maybe a month ago and all was good. However having a higher mile vehicle I should of been more diligent especially with this crazy weather we have had.
First sign I would get intermittently some pulsing on the left side. Not all the time just occasionally, very random times and speeds. I immediately assumed bad wheel hub bearing. So off I go to pick up a pair from Summit racing. On way back it went from bad to worse. I could hear and feel grinding on that left side. Still intermittently but when it was happening it was pretty loud. Again I just assumed wheel hub as it felt like previous wheel hub issues I have assessed and fixed. So I take off the wheel, caliper and can see a massive tear all the way around the cv axle boot and could see parts in side shredded. Pics attached.
Felt for any issue in the wheel hub and was none so figure all issue was of course the cv axle at this point. So I returned the wheel hubs and got a cv axle.
Having never taken on a CV axle job I was a little stressed. I did watch some YT videos and I tell you what made the difference was the one TRQ did for these 4th gens. I followed it to a T and the total job only took 45 minutes(yes I did time it). The hardest part was getting the LCA free from knuckle. In order to have clearance to put in new CV axle you have to get the knuckle free. But even that only took a minute but took some good hard wacks.
So for all of you that may be a little intimidated with a job like this do yourself a favor save a few hundred bucks it is totally worth knowing you did it yourself and saved some $$
I always check when I do oil changes, brakes, etc. I just did my brakes maybe a month ago and all was good. However having a higher mile vehicle I should of been more diligent especially with this crazy weather we have had.
First sign I would get intermittently some pulsing on the left side. Not all the time just occasionally, very random times and speeds. I immediately assumed bad wheel hub bearing. So off I go to pick up a pair from Summit racing. On way back it went from bad to worse. I could hear and feel grinding on that left side. Still intermittently but when it was happening it was pretty loud. Again I just assumed wheel hub as it felt like previous wheel hub issues I have assessed and fixed. So I take off the wheel, caliper and can see a massive tear all the way around the cv axle boot and could see parts in side shredded. Pics attached.
Felt for any issue in the wheel hub and was none so figure all issue was of course the cv axle at this point. So I returned the wheel hubs and got a cv axle.
Having never taken on a CV axle job I was a little stressed. I did watch some YT videos and I tell you what made the difference was the one TRQ did for these 4th gens. I followed it to a T and the total job only took 45 minutes(yes I did time it). The hardest part was getting the LCA free from knuckle. In order to have clearance to put in new CV axle you have to get the knuckle free. But even that only took a minute but took some good hard wacks.
So for all of you that may be a little intimidated with a job like this do yourself a favor save a few hundred bucks it is totally worth knowing you did it yourself and saved some $$