Quote Originally Posted by NoOne0785 View Post
Great write up! I am actually in the middle of replacing mine now, along with the bearings, and had a question. You said there should be no fluid coming out, though I have read others saying there should be some small amount that would come out, and the instructions with the CV said drain the tranny ( I didn't). When I took the right CV out the fluid immediately starting coming out, just a small stream, I would say half a quart total. I looked inside and didnt see any damaged seals or what not, but I wanted to get a little input before I run into an issue and more money spending

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: Well, when I went back out the trans was done leaking out fluid, so I put the new shaft and bearing assembly in. I decided to check it on the stands and started the car once I had everything back together and torqued down. The new side wasnt turning at all in gear, old side was fine, and I was hearing a clunking noise. I turned the car off and went to check it out. First I checked to make sure the brakes were not locked up, they were fine, then I tried to turn it by hand, which it would do. I thought that maybe it wasn't pushed in all the way at the trans... So i disassembled the whole right side again to redo all my steps (couldn't get the new CV back out so I made sure I pushed it in as far as it would go, put everything back together, restarted the engine and it worked that time. Did the left (which was a pain to get off the trans) then put the tires back on and let her heat up to check the fluid level, it lost a half a quart like I thought before. Test drove her up the street and back and everything seems to be good! Again, I appreciate the write up, this really helped me out a lot as I hadn't tried doing something like this before.
ive never done one where at least some fluid doesnt come out