Thread: FL1 - Front Outer CV

Originally Posted by woko

The part number is TDR100710. Im sure who you get your Land Rover parts can supply. If not I sure I could organize one for you.They usually come with grease. Normal CV is fine to use and causes no problems. If you want one quick use a universal CV boot, They have ribs on them you cut to size to fit the joint and shaft.

Thanks - unfortunately LR will want a motza for them and would prefer to exhaust other options first. I cannot see how a universal boot will fit as the CV housing is not round - has three scallops in the housing that the boot fills in with moulded sections so the clamp can pull up on.

The lubricant in the inner is much thinner than the outer - it is the red oil colour where the outer is the standard black stuff.

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

Thanks - unfortunately LR will want a motza for them and would prefer to exhaust other options first. I cannot see how a universal boot will fit as the CV housing is not round - has three scallops

Sorry my bad I thought they were round.

Originally Posted by woko

Sorry my bad I thought they were round.

So did I until I pulled them apart. I even had a spare boot that that looks like the inner from the outside - why couldn't they do the same as Subarus - same basic CV for inners and outers - all too easy.

I will check a couple of CV shaft rebuilders tomorrow and see how we go.

Cheers

Garry

I had no luck finding an inner CV boot that could be obtained quickly so I went and visited a local backyard CV rebuilder. He had a number of similar boots (with the little petals) but of course the landrover one is special and none of his were the same.

He said that he occasionally comes across this and what he does is cut away the concertina bit of the old boot until all is left is the larger end where the clamp goes which has the petals on it. This goes back on the CV housing with the rubber petals filling the dimples in the housing and you then put a generic boot over the lot and clamp it up.

Worked a treat and the shaft is now back in - the IRD oil that leaked out when I took the shaft out was a lot dirtier than I was expecting so a change in gearbox and IRD oils is necessary.

All this work was as a result of changing the cam belt and damaging the inner boot, so now all I have to do is get the drivers side engine mount bolted to the engine - in doing the belt the engine has move back an to the drivers side by about an inch so will have to work out how to move the engine with all the other mounts still in place.

Fun, fun, fun - not .

Garry

Excellent tip on the CV boots - thanks !

You asked me (in one of the threads) about how much the exhaust flex joint replacement was - I actually haven't done it yet - as once the exhaust had cleared it's throat - there's very little smoke at all from the joint when starting / running the car - however I took it into to the local exhaust place to get a quote and a replacement joint was about $80, plus labour to weld it in, which he believed was possible without removing the downpipe. about $100 total. I just didn't get around to booking it in while mucking about for the roadworthy.

Having said that - I didn't have too much drama getting the nuts off the turbo (mostly from underneath with an extension socket) one stud unscrewed instead of the nut - but that still works. The nuts on the front of the Cat were corroded, but a little WD40 and a ring spanner got them loose ok. The nuts on the turbo are a finer pitch thread than those on the cat - just fyi.

If you end up replacing the flex joint insitu and want to sell the complete downpipe you bought - let me know (I know mine comes off easily enough at the moment )

Also - I meant to ask - how pronounced is the whistle off your turbo with the acoustic cover removed from the engine bay ? ours is certainly audible but not annoying in any way. Someone mentioned that hearing the whistle is a sign of bearing wear - it doesn't sound any louder than most Hiluxes etc on the road...


Cheers,

Scott. 0412 708 138