First, thanks to Pedro for excellent instructions!
My Friday CV boot R/R got cut short as I made the mistake of going into work "just for a minute". Anyway, I got started about 1 pm and managed to complete the drivers side. I didn't think I'd have enough time to get to the other side so I put things back together and called it a day. I plan on doing the other side sometime in the next week.
The job is not that bad....but I was fairly worn out by the end of the job. Its funny how some things that I anticipated being tough were not at all and other took me more time than I'd imagined. Actually, seating the new boots and tightening up the clamps took more time as I found it hard to mess with with the boots with all of the grease. (and I tried my best to be neat). The clamps were the same thing...just hard to mess with when everything is a little slick.
Two items of note...
1. My ignition switch started messing up on the way to the hobby shop so I have another task to complete. I do have a new switch that I ordered a few years ago as a 'just in case'. Just gotta find a small screw driver.
2. On the short drive home from the shop, I felt the rear of the car kind of shimmy sideways. At first, I blew it off as being too aware of how the car was running after completing the boot job, The car did the same thing again and I pulled over to see if my axle had fallen off but no, everything looked in order. I decided to limp the last mile or two home and during the drive I decided I must not have tightened something completely....sure enough, I had hand tightened the nut on lower control arm to wheel hub ball joint...duh! I jacked the car up in the driveway and tightened the nut and, gosh, my car is all better.
Its a good thing I don't do this kind of work for a living....
dghii
2000 Boxster S 6speed 112k miles