Originally Posted by
centerforce99
A few days huh? I'm married w/2 children a combined age of 4. I'll ponder the thought. What manual do you recommend I have handy? So you yank on the axle and boot tore huh, I've heard of that happening, but easily repaired.
Actually, I have a pdf integra manual, but it can't be a Helm's. It doesn't go into much detail, so I maybe only referenced it twice for pictures. What I did use, however, was the dyi on TI. Let me just say that it really made it easy having a step by step guide. I suppose there are potential problems that could arise. I think worst case would be a completely rusted or stripped bolt or something like that. Luckily, my car is very clean underneath and everything came apart with ease save the ball joints. If you have any mechanical inclination at all you will be able to do it. But if you do decide to do it and in the process something completely goes wrong I will feel guilty, so on second thought you had better think it over.
Oh, and I ripped my ball joint boots from using a pickle fork to seperate the joints. You are thinking of the cv boot on the axles. Yeah, don't do that...I think that would have been much worse. Anyways, the next day I found a dyi that implemented the ratchet method of seperating ball joints, which maybe would have worked in my circumstance. Has anybody used the ratchet?