300zx cv axle rebuild

[Patcon]

So I have been working on rebuilding some cv halfshafts that I have with an CLSD differential

This is the second one with the bands cut. One of the shafts, the boots were split and I can't imagine the grease was supposed to be tan. Normally that is an indication of water but maybe the factory grease was tan.

You need to mark the one end (outer end) that can be disassembled. Supposedly the inner end is not disassemblable.

So I made small marks and also marked some blue tape for indexing

Then you drive the cap off the end

Then remove the snap ring and use the puller

There is a clip on the inboard side too

I could not find a way to disassemble this end

So the inner boots are NLA at Nissan and I could not locate them any where else. Dorman makes a "Uni-boot" that has multiple applications and needs to be trimmed to fit. Also the inner ones are light grey. I just couldn't do that! So I found outer boots on Rockauto that match the factory boots pretty good. For the inner boot, I found that generic boots were available on Ebay if you know how to search for the right size.

So I found some boots that looked correct. The right size, the right number of ribs, but surprise! They have three nubs molded on the inside, I was not expecting

So I got the die grinder and removed them

Here is the first shaft next to the next one