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San Jose CA - I'm doing cv joints - need some tips/tools
Hi guys,
I live near San Jose and over the weekend looked and noticed a cracked cv boot. I got a "spare" half shaft assembly from a friend and will fix that out board cv and boot and use it to swap out the ones on my car and redo at a slowish pace. My neighbor has air and a pretty good impact wrench.. where has anyone picked up the socket needed? I guess since impact wrench tools are stronger I won't need to get a 3/4" drive impact wrench and socket. Is there an English size that works well? The other threads are somewhat long on this but I want to disassemble the outboard cv's and clean/inspect/grease/reboot. Can this really be done? How did you reseal the "cap"? What tool did you use to tap off the outboard cap? So far I ordered 4 boot kits and 1 boot kit with cv mechanism. Also what sort of press did you have to use for the outside cv's? Is there something I can rig up at home to press these off? Thanks and sorry for bringing up the old subject.
Maybe on the outboard cv's I should just shove some new grease in there and reboot and leave well enough alone...
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