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Originally Posted by subman60
Back in High School in the 70s I drove VWs. They use to make split cv boots that could be rivited or bolted on. Seemed to work well on my VWs and I drove them hard. Has anyone had any experinces using them on MBs and are they even available? After watching a video of how top do the one piece I'm not sure I have the expertice for that job.
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split boot suck. i won't use them even on my old vw beetle. the normal one piece boots are not difficult to change at all, just messy. rebuilding an axle is a good opportunity to clean and inspect the cv joints for pitting or scoring.
plus if you do have a torn boot, sealing it back up with a split boot is foolish, as you'd be sealing in all the dirt and grit its picked up from the road, and the joint will fail in short order. any time you have a torn boot, you really need to clean and repack the affected cv joint if you want it to last.
buy two new boots (no sense in replacing just the one, the labor is same to do both), buy two new circlips for the ends of the axle, buy good moly cv grease, and make sure you have the correct socket (allen head or triple-square, depending) for your axles. also be sure to use some loctite and torque the axle bolts to the correct value when re-installing. a torque wrench is required.