Who needs CV Boots!! ;-)

Well the old CV boot problem, I'm sure many of you are well versed in it. Friday afternoon, my mate and I were standing out the front of my place discussing what we were going to take with us on the boys trip the next day up to Wedge Island. It was then I noticed that the surf had appeard to have done some kind of poo! I get down on my hands and knees and there is a massive glob of black grease under the car. Oh, oh... I look up and sure enough there is grease ALL over the passenger side wheel arch and suspension. Upon closer inspection the inner boot had split so badly that it was torn almost half way around and you could see the tri bearings!! BUGGER! What to do, I don't have time to change it and we are going to do a few hundred k's with a large portion of beach and dune driving. AND I can't unlock the hubs on the surf, they are always locked so even highway driving will be spinning the buggery out of the joint.

So, we jack the car up, take the wheel off, clean the grease off with some brake and parts cleaner and metho, put a few good handfuls of penrite chasis grease in there (it's all I had, and very messy exercise I might add). Then comes out the good old roady tape (gaffa tape). We tape the buggery out of it and cross our fingers....

Well after about 400k's of highway, city and beach/dune driving we get to changing the boot. To my absolute amazingment the tribearing was completley sand free! I mean of course there was friggin sand EVERYWHERE outside the boot, all over the suspension, wheel arch bash plates etc etc, but not one grain in the the CV.

So there's a lesson for ya! If you do a CV boot out bush, or at a really inconveniant time, GAFFA TAPE, it works bloody treat.