I have been doing my research and see that replacing the axleshafts is no big deal but here is my dilemna.

My axles are fine....
My boots however are borderline and since I regularly drive 700 miles at a shot I wanted to replace them before they tear loose and cause problems. This has particularly comeup since I lost the dust cover on the front driveline this last trip. Scared teh He!! out of me when it went as it sounded like the driveline was about to rattle off the car at 65 MPH.

Anyway, I ned to know if you can just replace the boots? The Haynes manual says to turn this over to a shop as it is an expert only job.

Thoughts on this? I know on the old VWs you could get the split boots that you bolted into place without removing the shafts. I think you cut off the old boot and then just wrapped teh new one around the shaft and can and bolted it up...

Is this arrangement available for the 123s?

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