All this cutting and stuff sounds a little fishy to me.

Most of my repair manuals for various cars show you how to redo an axle. The repair manuals make it sound like all that you do is take the CV joint apart with very basic hand tools, throughly clean the CV cage, bearings and such, removing all the old grease & dirt, reassemble the CV joint, grease it real good, install new boot, install CV axle back in the car.

I thought not really any different in theory than repacking a wheel bearing.

Am I way off base here?

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1987 300TDT
1981 VW MKI Caddy 1.6 diesel, waiting on engine swap
1983 D-50 Power Ram 4x4 "Mitsubishi" 2.3 turbo diesel
assorted gas powered crap and motorcycles

RIP: 1984 300TDT, 1982 300TDT, 1984 190D 2.2, 1992 300D 2.5, 1987 300TDT, 1982 Maxima LD28, 1983 Maxima LD28, Isuzu C223 P'ups X3, 1983 Holiday Rambler 6.2 Banks turbo diesel, 1984 Winnebago LeSharo 2.1 TD, 1985 Allegro 6.5