I think the important part is that it is full or nearly full and that it is sealed. Most of the CV rebuild kit's I've seen have the grease in a plastic bag and you cut the corner off and spooge the contents inside the boot until you run out or the boot is full. No nedd to realy measure a quantity, just fill it well.
If your grease is in another container and not easy to get inside (i've used putty knives and packed it like you'd work peanut butter), then get a sandwich baggie or Ziploc bag and put the grease inside and cut the corner off. This way you squirt the grease out like a cake frosting decorating tube. The impotant part is to get it clean of old grease and any particles and pack it as well as you can with fresh grease then tighten the end bands so they seal. The first few times I did it I was really anal retentive about getting out the air bubbles but remember that the thing gets warm and spins super fast so if sealed properly it will take care of putting the grease where it wants to be. Just be clean and fill it best you can. If you overfill it, then it will weep the excess out until it doen't want to weep anymore out. Just not as difficult as it might seem at first. Check your inner CVs as thundering or vibration as speed are to me typical signs of an inner CV failing (they fail at a much lower rate than outers that have to steer). Obviously your grease on the wheels make the outers suspect but check your inners really good while you are at it. Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert K. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Rex list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "where the hooligan's are!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: CRX: One way to know you busted your outside CV boot... > Driving into work this morning, I noticed a vibration in the steering > wheel... the same type one feels when a wheel/tire is out of balance (or a > tire that is low on pressure or flat). I wasn't too far from work so no > worries. > > Got to work and looked at the tires and they all looked good. Upon closer > inspection of the front right wheel, I saw some black stuff which looked > like grease. Since I have an "open" face style rim, I could see that the > inside of the rims had grease and so I knew I had a leaking CV boot. > > So I guess that would explain the "out of balance" feel at the steering wheel. > > I took a peek at the Helm manual and noticed that it said to use between 90 > to 100 grams of grease when it comes time to re-pack the boot. The > illustrations suggests that you use a spoon or similar tool to scoop and > pack said boot. How do you measure the amount of grease? Or do you just > pack it solid? > > Belive it or not, I've never done a CV boot swap on a CRX before. Done > axle swaps but the boots were already on and the CV was already greased up. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I plan to do this tomorrow. > > > Robert K. Kuhn > CRX Owners Group President (http://www.crx.org/southcal) > > 1990 Honda CRXsi (http://www.hooligan.cc) > ICQ # 3714283 (nickname: godzilla) >
