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CV Help needed!

Have a single boot on a CV that has started spewing out its grease.

gonna have to pull the CV, because its the inner boot. I've pulled a CV before, so thats ok. however....

What to do...


• A New toyota boot kit
• B Low KM second hand Toyota CV
• C Aftermarket CV (if so which one)
• D Aftermarker boot kit

You can generally do the inner boot without having to touch outer CV (ie just undo the two spindle bolts on the UCA etc and remove the inner and replace the boot).

IMO the genuine CV is a far better unit than anything other than an RCV CV. So in my view, just replace the boot.

Does that need the inner shaft pulled out of the diff?

**EDIT ** ah, i found it here, 7th post down -- viewtopic.php?t=24527

pull tripod out of cup, then find circlip and take tripod off axle

awesome, thanks @hiluxxy (and by extension, @Ultraluxe)

Get yourself a few rags and gloves ready. That grease is something out of a horror movie.

Genuine Toyota boots I have found the best, the others just haven't lasted and had to replace them again.

Alrighty, I now have a couple of genuine inner boots

Any tips for the bands / straps? Seems like theyre designed to be exactly the right size, clipping into place with no trimming needed, but has to be pulled tight enough to latch. Do i need to buy Another Tool For One Job ™ (ok ok so two sides to the car - its two jobs) or will normal tools suffice?

Though I have heard of a few people using worm drive clamps - anyone here done that?

*edit here is a forum with pics of the clamp style that i seem to have https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f2/prob ... mp-137701/

*edit2 this seems to picture the right tool, narrow head on the tool to suit the 'earless' clamps that toyota uses https://www.toyota-4runner.org/4th-gen- ... -boot.html

once i find the tool that works ill take pics and post here for when i inevitably forget and go throu... i mean for others to see

clampy wrote:Any tips for the bands / straps? Seems like theyre designed to be exactly the right size, clipping into place with no trimming needed, but has to be pulled tight enough to latch. Do i need to buy Another Tool For One Job ™ (ok ok so two sides to the car - its two jobs) or will normal tools suffice?

Pics of tools on this thread: Leaking inner CV boot

Chopps wrote:Pics of tools on this thread: Leaking inner CV boot

Thanks, looks like that thread you mention depicts the eared clamps, and the tools to use those. note the part of the clamp that is lifted up, and squeezed. I imagine thats the Ear that is referred to


The boot kit for the KUN26 that you might buy today (and my current CV boots, for that matter) use the eared style for the small clamp and the earless for the large clamp. earless seems to need a tool with a much narrower head to fit into the little hooks that let you pull it tight enough to latch



edit: toyota inner boot kit comes with two different clamp styles lol, different tools needed for each

What style clamps did the inner boot kit come with? Seems stupid to require 2 different tools
Might be cheaper to buy a different clamp style so only one tool needed
Just noticed your avatar name