can these been changed in situ? or do i have to pull the shafts out of the box?

steps anyone?

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Expert in training

After market boots were available to instal without pulling the shafts apart, but genuine ones require spanners and swearing.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

If you're going to do the CV boots, you may as well do the Pot Joint boots (provided yours has pot joints) so you may as well disconnect the driveshafts.

Either way you have to pop the ball joints to get the hub off to do it with proper CV boots which is the hard part anyway. The easy part is doing the actual boots. To pop the ball joints will require swearing

I dunno about the modern CV boots... sounds dodgey...

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

nope, no pot joint.. good old (well new now) unis

ball joints have come off enough times that they're quite easy.. only a bitch when theyve been together for years

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Expert in training

Well then, no sweat or swearing!

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

The ticket for the ball joints is a modern-day-car Tie Rod splitter. Worth about 20 bucks from SuperRepBahn and will save you swearing, busting the ball joints themselves, or knocking your car off the stands trying to belt it with the tuning fork style breakers.


dewey

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Please don't by These

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

I bought a scissor-type splitter at a cheapie shop for $6 ....

Taken the front end apart about 10 times already.... paid for itself !
(so about 40 ball-joints!)

hunt around, you'll find one !

J

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so i should only have to take the swivel hub assembly off and the cv just falls out of the other side then?

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Expert in training

Yeah but to do it properly with the real CV boots it would be 10 times easier with the driveshafts disassembled if you ask me. Put it this way, if the driveshaft is still in the car and you are trying to do the CV join, you will need to hold the hub upright and in position in the car so that the driveshaft, CV and Hub are inline while trying to put the boot on with cable ties Even swearing may not get you out of that one!

Easiest way I can see is to undo the uni joint at the engine, pop the ball joints, get some bricks and lay the hub on it's side or something near the car (so that you don't need to disconnect the brake lines) and then fix the CV joints.

Then reverse the process.

Be careful with your brake lines! don't twist them or let the hub hang on them or else more swearing required! Hope that helps... Whatever you decide, you are in for some dirty work! CV grease is not the most clothes friendly substance!

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

By the way, if you have never popped the ball joint in say... 10 yrs or something, those $10 ball joint splitters are useless! I went through 3 of them (ie. Broke 3 of them!) before using the fork type splitter to finally get it popped. I figurs since I was replacing the whole ball joint it didn't matter what I did to them

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

Back to two hammers. I just did some that had been laying in paddock for many years. Two hits and they were apart.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

Really? mine were tight as a hong kong bookie! Or worste a Hong Kong Mother In Law!!!

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Lillee - 1969 Morris Mini K

I had heaps of trouble with the tuning fork.
When I bought the tie rod spittler that uses a bolt that you tighten down directly against the threaded shaft of the ball joint.... Everything was Peachy.



dewey

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