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01-22-19, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Lowner

First, I’d like to thank you for your quick reply. Would you recommend getting the axle out and add grease? Or this can be done while it’s in place? Stealership would charge me $350 just to re-clamp!
To install new boots $1500 for both! Charging me 7.5 hr for labor + parts! Outrageous

I did not remove the axle. I pirchased my own clamp as well as the grease and grease gun. I first cleaned the surrounding area of all grease and then cut the old clamp off. Then I slipped the special needle that that you need to purchase for the gun underneath the boot and injected the grease. I cleaned the extra grease up and put the new clamp on. This was back in the summer and The leak has not reoccurred.

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Originally Posted by roadfrog

That's what I did on an old car of my wife's back in the day. The kit I used didn't even require replacing the clamp. It had a special hypodermic needle type thing with grease and all you did was pierce the boot and inject the grease. Afterwards, you applied a seal (I can't remember exactly what it was). That lasted for several years without issue before we traded it in,.

I read about this method somewhere but was a little hesitant in piercing the boot even though it seemed to work for that individual.

Clamps I used