CV Boot repair

[Diamond Hell]

GTI and 16V shafts on Golf3 definitely have some sort of sealant/locking compound on them.

A 3-arm puller will push them out pretty easily, or you may find they've been done before and whoever did them previously didn't use the sealant.

I have to say I'd be quite windy about using sealant on them as well as properly tightening up the hub nuts.  Aside from anything, it makes the job a pain in the a$$ the next time you come to do it.  Plus I've never seen this sealant in a CV boot replacement kit - if it was that important it'd be in the kit.

The outers on my Passat are even tougher to release - you wind the bolt that secures the CV into the CV and it goes tight, so you keep on winding until it goes BANG and the CV comes off 

[danny_p]

GTI and 16V shafts on Golf3 definitely have some sort of sealant/locking compound on them.

yup , and it's pritty damb good stuff.

i rember decideing that they would beat out.    they did eventualy beat out but it falred the stub in the prosses

[AudiA8Quattro]

Its not just the sealant, the mk3 splines seem to 'bind' when trying to knock the shaft out, not sure if its a tighter fit.

[Khare]

All sorted. HUGE thanks to DH for helping me out, changed all 4 CV boots and cleaned out all the joints and re greased them, so now as good as new for another 50k miles at least