Thread: Pictorial on how to replace the axle boots.
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Old 01-29-2006, 07:51 PM
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Question, since someone already revived this thread....
There was a suggestion a few posts up about swapping side from left to right to gain additional time before replacement.
I was reading in the FSM ( yeah, I know--I got no life), anyway the FSM mentioned that there were oil slinger grooves machined onto the axles to throw the oil back away from the boot. If you reverse sides, you will have these slinging oil the wrong way.
Now, the FSM was a bit ambiguous--was this a practice for ALL W126 or just early production ones?
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