How to repair a torn CV Boot Fast and for Free! With Budget Mechanic.

On a Budget? Why pay a few $100 when you can repair your torn CV Boot fast and for free? This video will show you how to repair a torn CV Boot using simple everyday items found around the house. This is a fast easy repair that is about as hard as changing a tire and if done correctly should last in the 10,000s of miles range. The technique can be modified to cover any additional damage or simply changed out if it ever fails. Either way if you spend nothing and do nothing it will fail and likely leave you stranded and worse off than paying a few $100 to have it repaired from the start, but if you spend nothing and incorporate this little technique to fix it yourself you have lost nothing but a small amount of time and at least you still have a few $100 to spend on better things than auto repairs.

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[gavinksmith]

then 4 mins after you have started riding again and it all falls apart, go and buy a new boot for $15 and do it properly.

[timinhayner]

LOL...Sounds like the voice for Motel 6

[TheStruoc]

I just did this, it took a few hours and after a couple mishaps I slowed down, realizing this is possible helping me put off a $400 job of axle replacements. Do not waste time on boots alone, just do the rebuilt axle complete...and get everything new, but thats $400.

This was a great idea, based off the rubber of a bike innertube. Getting the main tie wrap tight is key and the overlap needed. Relube it yourself! and drive it till you need the whole axle.

Its just holding grease in, great idea

[trio3d]

American Cheap Ass. LOL. I got 2 broken boots this morning, I hate it when rusty axles act stubborn and I gotta depend on nasty techniques to slip the boot in position

[jcargile242]

This "repair" lasted about 2 weeks. And, as a friend with far greater mechanical inclination than myself pointed out, once the boot is ripped it's pretty much all over with. A little dirt and grit gets in there and you're not going to get it out, and closing the rip up just seals the grit inside where it can thrash things real good. Just ride on it till it starts popping even when the wheel ISN'T turned, and then replace it with a new or reman part.

[666TECHNO666]

great idea, keeps you from having to remove the whole drive shaft and will have you from going to a mechanic...lucky for me i just popped my bmx tire...tell me, would using an RTV sealant also help, i have some laying around

[toomeywave]

this is great i did it and its a great fix and it works

[jcargile242]

"F" for presentation, "A" for the idea

Sounds like a mix of Tom Bodett and Harry S Plinkett

Incredibly unfunny "jokes" as he drones on

Crappy music and imagery

Makes it hard to take the video seriously

The idea is good. I improved on it some - used a wheelbarrow inner tube didn't slit it. Wrapped a length around the boot, and ran the zip ties INSIDE the tube. When tightened one end of the tube fits into the other. So far so good.

[titecs]

this video is freakin' lame.

[tigon419on]

STILL WORKS GREAT 2,000 MILES LATER AFTER FIX USE A HUGE OVER WRAP AND LOTS OF TIES. JACK THE CAR FRONT UP INSTALL 15 MINUTES LATER YOU'RE GOOD TO GO. AND I GET TO KEEP MY ORIGINAL OEM FACTORY CV JOINTS.