ponch1
Ponch
Yep and a huge percentage of those CV's have had the boot ripped in one way or another. I even use a lube hypodermic needle to inject free flowing grease into non- lube-able ball joints and then give them a schmere of silicone to seal the hole...
When those tiny needles in a u-joint start to wear out, the end comes soon. Do you ever remember a car going by with the "odd squeak"?
Without a new u-joint the shaft ends up looking like the picture.
I haven't had a cv joint boot tear in years. Not on my suburban, Windstar, jetta or passat totalling hundreds of thousands of miles.