CV joints premature wear in 91 Integra

Just a Wild Assed Guess...

LUBRICANT?!!!!!????

There has to be lube in the CV joints, yeah? I mean, otherwise it is metal on metal. Inside the rubber boot I mean. Lube. CV Joint Lube or some similar poo poo.

Lg WAG the tail

More likely the fault is with the driver. Don't accelerate hard when turning and you won't wear them out so fast.

wrote in news:35K6h.6$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews2.bellsouth.net:

'Cause you let the boots split on the originals...

Yep.

Also, one mistake some mechanics make is forgetting to let some air into the inner boots after the shafts are installed. Forgetting that causes a kink in the rubber boot, which splits wide open very rapidly.

Shouldn't have let the original boots split. They can last 300,000 miles.

By doing... what?

"Noozer" wrote in news:ZTM6h.321626$5R2.98979@pd7urf3no:

By changing the boots before they split, of course.

Have a peek at them each time you're under there doing an oil change. It takes about two years from the first sign of cracking to an open split in the boot. Lotsa time to save your premium-quality OEM Honda CV joints.

A boot change is about the same price as replacing the entire axle with an aftermarket reman, but if you use new OEM Honda replacement boots, you might go another ten years with no more trouble. Ever seen aftermarket remans go ten years without any trouble?

Why would you say that? If he got 111,000+ miles out of the originals and only 1,000 on the replacements, it seems obvious that either the replacement job was totally botched or they used inferior parts (or both).

Sounds like he got some "spray and pray" replacements. Rather than remanufactered units, the cores were just cleaned up with new boots and grease.

Bob