Hi I am looking, no doubt naively, for an easier method than pulling the entire drivers side steering knuckle apart just to replace the CV boot.
I used to be a VW mechanic , frankly I made decent living rebuilding CV joints. Fondly recalling how it was like solving a Rubics Cube. Big difference :twisted: on the Isuzu, the books say remove the tie rods and ball joints, disassemble the auto lock hubs. Jesus, what a pain!


I was in there replacing the brake pads when I saw the broken boot.

On the other side I found a massive power steering fluid leak. I have not started the engine to definitively determine where the leak is, but I suspect it it the power steering box as I already swapped the pump from my parts Trooper.

Thinking of trying a split CV boot, but of course this won't address contamination already in the CV joints.

Why, you ask don't I take the Trooper off the jack stands and start the engine? Well of course while I was doing the rear brake shoes I noticed the tail pipe disconnected from the muffler, which of course is bad and needs replacing as well. :roll:
I love my 223 turbo-diesel Trooper, but dang, it almost seems like it would be simpler, to pull the engine out of my work Trooper and install it in my parts Trooper.
Dismayed, in New Mexico