Outer Limits 4x4 Board

I've got a 2000 model hilux (IFS). this morning i noticed that grease had been flicked up under my wheel arch. On closer inspection there was heaps of grease flicked on the lower arm and bumpstop aswell. I cleaned it away and had a close lookat the boot, but i cant see where the hell its coming from.

Anyone had the same prob, or have any ideas??

Cheers,

Mark.

found the problem, was a split in the CV boot near the outer circlip. Have to get it replaced. No doubt i'll have to sell a kidney to pay for the price that toyota will be asking.

i may be wrong, but if u have oil coming from that area and the boot is cracked check ur cv's dude u way have sanpped one

Its grease mate, not oil. I'll have a look as its a good possibility i may have snapped one. No telltale signs tho. 4wd works perfect and no noise.

that happens alot when the torsion bars wound up to adjust the car hieght

and after drivin on sand it chops them out too

Just get a new boot from Repco, I think they are like $15 or something. They are not much anyway.

Have a go at replacing it yourself. You can do it without removing the shaft from the hub as well.

Stew

I didn't think of that, I just took both shafts out to do my 4Runner. Although it'd be a messy/fidly job trying to do it up under the truck i guess..

Years ago when I busted a cv boot on my Subaru, I cleaned up the split (was only small) really well and used a bike tube repair kit to patch the break. Was still holding together 6 months later b4 I got rid of it.