Well popped another CV boot again.

[CoastieCosta567]

I really appreciate that, thanks bro, and i'll deff.. let you know when.

[Marlin]

Your boot tore, and you heard squealing? That is weird. I wonder if it had been torn a long time, and the squeal was the lack of grease.
I have been rolling for months with torn mecatech junk boots. No squealing, no problems.

(Just changed boots a few weeks ago when I did the diff drop and SFIFS install.)

[Marlin]

Driving with torn boots is not an emergency. I wheeled URE in October with torn boots, stream crossings, mud....not a big deal. Big Swede has had torn boots for a LONG time, if you replenish the grease every once in a while, you should be fine. Definitely not a roadside, duct tape, tow truck, thanks to the lord kind of deal. Not to make your situation appear non-critical, I just don't want other folks to freak out if it happens to them.

Looking at your CV angle, you really should look at doing a diff drop, or lowering the front end back down. I am close to stock front height now, super flexy, and I can stuff 34s in there with ZERO rubbing. All I did was remove the splashguard and trim/pound the back of the wheel well. It performs offroad SO MUCH BETTER with the front end lower.

[Ebenezr]

I have had a torn boot for 6 weeks now passeenger side and dealt with it today. For the last 8 weeks I have driven with a brump brump brummump noise. I thought it was my uneven tires. not. bought new cooper ht plus. I thought I had bad wheel bearings...even tore a back axle off cause I was convinced that was the problem. Finally I lifted my passenger side front with a jack and spun the front tire by hand while I observed the cv joint. With each rotation it would push slightly upward on the front differential. So today I ripped that half shaft out by its neck! Now I would like to ring the neck of the person who put the tripod style joint on because the standard replacements are the 6 bearing type. So the inner cup is tripod. I ordered an entire full shaft with cup for 54 bucks. Now I need a few more hours to drop the differential in order to put the inner cup on. AND I will drop the diff an inch or so at that time. Well thanks for letting me chime in and I live in Fl. too but Fort Myers.

[CoastieCosta567]

Your boot tore, and you heard squealing? That is weird. I wonder if it had been torn a long time, and the squeal was the lack of grease.
I have been rolling for months with torn mecatech junk boots. No squealing, no problems.

(Just changed boots a few weeks ago when I did the diff drop and SFIFS install.)

thats what i was thinking. I figured that it tore a while ago and it finally let me know after all the grease dried and jumped out, hmmmm, I need to do better before travel checks. Im slacking, just simply slacking.

Oh the angle is like that cuz I already had the tire and the lower ball joint taken off. But i have the front only up by 1-1 1/2 inches from stock.