Originally posted by Giraffe
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In the course of fighting with the CV axle on the driver side, I tore the boot. These ones evidently are filled with gear oil rather than a thick grease, because that's what started leaking out. It's a good thing my buddy was working at the parts place because this could have been much more expensive. Got CVs for both sides, anticipating stupidity on the other side too.
Control arm was off in...I dunno, 10 minutes? The new shaft went in rather nicely, put the new arm in, anti-seized everything liberally, got the driver side back together. Moved on to the passenger side.
Yanked it all apart pretty uneventfully except for the ball joint pinch bolt, which was corroded in its hole so badly I had to put heat on it to get it out.
Didn't realize the passenger side axle would not have that irritating clip on it, so I mulled over the idea of not replacing this one and just reusing the old, till I spun the bearing on the shaft and realized it's trashed. Yanked the seal out, popped the new one in, put the new axle in, control arm in, pretty much ready for the knuckle and strut assembly to go back in but I see a section of brake line I'm not super happy with and want to make sure it's not going to require attention before I put stuff back in the way again.
The scrap pile from this car so far, which will go into the 04 when it goes for scrap:
Also scoped out how access is to the exhaust flex pipe...not great. I don't see how they're going to do it in the car, the manifold-cat-flex assembly probably needs to come out. But I'm farming that out to a shop and whatever it costs, it costs. It has been previously repaired and appears from the positioning of things that maybe a too-short one was used and it sort of stretched until it detached the flex part from the end.
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