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Originally Posted by Paul Robinson
Prior to clamping the rubber boot to the lip of the can should I fill each can half way to the seam? Fill it completely? Is the quantity specified anywhere?
I could use grease, but prefer to replace with oil as it was originally.
Thanks for your time.
Paul
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There is a specific amount of Oil listed in the Mercedes Service Manual and that amount may be mentioned in some of the threads on rebooting Axles as well as what to use. There is no spec on how much grease because the Mercedes Service manual does not cover using grease.
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Even the famous Axle rebuilder in Col. uses CV Grease unless you request Oil.
When I re-booted the Cardone rebuilts it had grease in it. I packed the Cans full of grease and also filled the Boot at 1/2 to 2/3rds with grease. Note that the little packet of grease that comes with the Dorman Boots is about 1/3 of what you need.
I recently changed 3 Boots on a non-mercedes and packed it with grease to a similar amount so that the Boots also had Grease in them.
One of the advantages of grease is that if your get a leak in the Boot it is more difficult to loose all of the Grease then it is to loose Oil. I mean something can come up from the road and tear or poke a new Boot.
You can see from the pics where I removed the Boot from the Cardone rebuilt Axle that Cardone did not skip on the Grease. Looks to me like they applie as much grease as possible.