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After reading about all of this axle boot stuff, I got under my car today and lo and behold, one of my inner boots is leaking.  I have an IRS rear so there is a boot at each CV joint.  It wasn't torn, just pulled out of the mounting ring where it was crimped between two parts - not adequately, I guess.  There wasn't a whole lot of grease thrown about so I think it must have happened when I took the car out a couple of weeks ago.  Lucky I caught it early and it looked like a pucker about an inch long.

When I bought my axles I bought an extra complete drive axle as a spare so the spare got swapped in.  Quick call to a local driveshaft rebuilder and they've got two new pairs of mounted boots and can swap them while I wait for $30 bucks.

Everything's back to normal and I'll have another spare axle tomorrow.  Then I'll get back to wire brushing and painting whatever looks rusty under there, which is what I thought I was gonna be doing today....   Can't wait to see what needs attention when I get to the front of the car!

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