Outer cv joint replacement - advice please

[Tonka]

Hi there. My Surf just failed it's MOT on the offside outer CV joint. It's quite badly split, so I don't think it can be repaired.

I've just read the Haynes on this, it looks like quite a big job. Is there an easy way to do this? I'm short on time at the moment......

Cheers for any advice.

[wishbone]

Quickest fix is to swap in a decent used shaft. Not much to it.

Then replace the boot on the old one at your leisure and have a spare.

[Tonka]

Why, is it particularly difficult to replace the boot once the shaft is removed?

[wishbone]

No it's a piece of p$$$ but as you have already read up on how to do it and wanted a 'quicker' fix I assumed you didn't have any spare time to do the boots and just wanted your truck back on the road asap..

[Tonka]

No it's a piece of p$$$ but as you have already read up on how to do it and wanted a 'quicker' fix I assumed you didn't have any spare time to do the boots and just wanted your truck back on the road asap..

Gotcha, I was hoping there was some new fangled repair kit out there, or a boot which would go over my existing split one or something. Things haven't moved on in the world of CV boot repair obviously!

Many thanks for the advice.

[Tonka]

Job done, but what a pain! I had to remove the drop link, otherwise there was no room to get the driveshaft out, no matter what I did with the jack etc.