Re: Bad Sounds (continuation)

[Rich Deede <rdeed@UDel.Edu>]

If you found a rip in your CV boot and it's been like that for a while
then your CV joint is probably toasted and thus causing your noise. You
need to get a new boot, and CV joint and repack with new grease. If you
would have caught the rip when it first happened you could have probably
saved the joint by changing the boot then, but you didn't so.... HTH.
 



Rich Deede
1988 Scirocco 2.0 16v
1987 Scirocco 16v - R.I.P.
http://www.geocities.com/scirocco16v


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Christopher Mueller wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> Went and checked under the front end more thoroughly yesterday and DID find
> that my left inner CV boot had a small rip in it.  Patched it with duct tape
> (for the time being) but am still getting that rpm-related noise described
> in the earlier thread.  
> 
> Something inside the CV joint itself?  Possibly from losing
> who-knows-how-much lubricant from the boot?  Or would people zero in on the
> wheel bearing with even more conviction?
> 
> Again, thanks in advance.
> 
> Christopher
> 87 16V
> 


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