Thread: Another CV Boot blowout! Yeah me!!

This sucks! I went to Firestone on Saturday to get my alignment done after I had my new tranny installed. The car was pulling a bit to the right, plus there was this weird vibration coming from the passanger front of the car. The vibration would occur when you increased speed continually until you hit cruising. I went ahead and decided to have them do the 4 wheel swap and balance while doing the alignment.

The manager comes in and asks me to come with him into the garage, I was preping for some sales pitch on something that was not wrong with my car, but they wanted to fix. Well low and behold........this is what they showed me.



The outter CV boot blew! The metal band around it was simply GONE! And the inner part of the rim was coated in CV joint grease along with anything near by the boot So it needed to be replaced. I got a new CSP axle from Advanced Auto for roughly $70 bucks and installed it.

Here are some of the pictures of the garnage before and after.







And after the fix







I did have a little tranny fluid leak out after the original axel was removed, but nothing that wasn't expected.

it happens...

Whats wrong with O'Reilly's?

Originally Posted by SyntheticShield

Whats wrong with O'Reilly's?

Well the truth be told. The reason why I went with Advanced Auto was that it was first in my favorites under my Pontiac folder in IE, alphabetical order thing ya know , and I checked their site and they had ONE instock in the store close to where I live. So I just went up and snagged it. I have to call Rock Auto tomorrow to see if either I can get money back for the one that blew or at least have them send me a new one to have as a spare.

The one that blew was made by Cardone. I got a set of them through Rock Auto just this past summer. It was one of their brand new, not reman'ed jobs. The one I purchased from Advanced was made by GSP. Guansheng Auto Parts Manufacture Co., Ltd. It seems to be pretty good. I can not say definitively that it was the fault of Cardone's quality or if possibly the tranny shop that dropped my frame caused the damage.

Either way after we completed the swap, the vibration still exists. So now I am wondering if the tranny shop did something to the balance of the car, or if possibly there is a new issue created by them. Needless to say I am going up there tomorrow morning to pitch a bit*h about it with them. I didn't spend $2,900 bucks to only have more issues

Originally Posted by MnRedGP

By the way nice picture of where the ABS bracket is and how the wire gets to it. Seems like a bad design. Has anyone tried to Glue the ABS wire with something like RTV , epoxy, or even JB weld to the inside of the mount do it can't make contact with the CV shaft. I suspect it can get pretty beat up in icy situations. I would have tried it with mine if it were warmer so the glue would set up. Seems odd they are design to just lay in there stretched up to the bracket . Nice job getting it back on the road.

Hiya MnRedGP,

I tried understanding your quote above, but I have to beg to differ about with your idea.

I am not quite sure where in the "mount" you are referring to place the ABS coupler, but the line leading from the hub to the ABS coupler is only about 3" long. There is not a lot of play to move it anywhere else on the wheel or strut mount assembly. Where the metal bracket is located it is up and away from the CV Boot, its unfortuately in direct line of fire if the CV boot blows out, like mine did. I just cleaned up the grease and reconnected it without issues.

I personally wouldn't recommend using epoxy or RTV to mount the coupler anywhere else, but where it is.

AWH! I gotcha now! actually if I have to take the wheel off again I will snap a few shots for ya to show you the clearance. Its actually a bit more than you think. Also ice build up in that part of the car wont affect the wire. Now if a twig or something got up in there, then perhaps, but given the location and how any object would have to hit that wire just right is almost next to impossible. Could something ever hit it? I am sure it could, but setup I think is pretty secure in its current spot.

Also if you wanted to that extension idea, you would have to mill through the forged steel of the knuckle to route the wiring elsewhere. And milling through the knuckle, you actually create a new weak point in the knuckle. Solving one very limited potential problems and adding a more certain one by drilling into the knuckle.

I like your thought none the less. It shows initiative*! I like that!