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CV Grease Ques. (How do these people find me?)
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Posted by pursang (more from pursang) on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:30:05 Share Post by Email
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This is a socio-mechanical question, or, "How do these people find me?.

My neighbor watched me swap out axle assemblies on my 92 900S to replace the inner and outer CV joints and, as no good deed goes unpunished, is now bugging me to help him solve a problem on his 90 900.

When his outer CV joints were replaced a couple of years back, apparantly nylon zip ties were used to secure the inner cv drive boots instead of the original hose clamps or new straps (inners were not replaced). The driver side has a large zip tie, but there is nothing on the passenger side side, its either missing in action or never put back on. The passenger side cv has lost a significant amount of grease (you can see the dried remnants on the exhaust, block, etc) from the end of the boot and he gets some noise/vibration from the car at speed, which could be anything on a car like his. The boot itself appears to be ok, dry but no holes ar significant cracking.

He's asking me to help him solve this, his plan was to peel back the boot and sqeezing a tube of cv joint grease into the boot, then reinstall a hose clamp. The engine heat "would liquify the grease" and lube the inner joint. What he wants now is for me to pull the axle and clean the tripod and inner driver and regrease it. The car is a beater so the peel and squeeze may work because its certainly not worth my time to fix it if he can't even wash and wax the thing to start with. I'm also worried that if I start to help, I'll be responsible for whatever else goes wrong with a car I'm not familiar with; the guy is kind of a squirrel and cheap.

So, the question is, is there any big downside to his peel and squeeze method, and does the grease have to be of the same type (I'm familiar with a light brown paste and a more traditional dark brown translucent grease from doing this on VW's years ago). His joint appears to have the light brown stuff and he has a tube of the dark brown grease from Carquest to put in. If two greases were mixed would any harm result? And how long would this last him?

I'd like to just give him advace and stay away from it.

Thanks in advance.



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