Solit Driveshaft Boot

This is the Forum for all your Peugeot Technical Questions, Problems or Advice.

Moderator: RichardW

Post Reply
alan8181
Posts: 7
Joined: 05 Feb 2005, 21:31
Location:
My Cars:

Solit Driveshaft Boot

Post by alan8181 »

Hi,
a mechanic has just done some maintenance on a squeak in my car when steering right and lift and also sticking brakes.
He has advised me that my nearside driveshaft boot is split as is my offside front slipper rubbers split also.
Does anyone know if these are big jobs to fix and how serious it would be if I left them? He said all the grease had come out of the boot and that he'd put more in and sealed it up with something.
Cheers,
Al
JohnD
(Donor 2022)
Posts: 2632
Joined: 14 Mar 2001, 23:41
Location: Epsom, Surrey
My Cars: 2010 Citroen C5-X7 tourer
1998 Citroen Saxo 1.5D
2018 Citroen C4-B7
1998 Peugeot 306. 1.9D
2011 Citroen C1
x 72
Contact:

Post by JohnD »

If the driveshaft boot is left, all the grease will fly out, grit will get in and very soon you'll need a new CV joint.
Oh! and it will fail the MOT.
Homer
Posts: 1503
Joined: 26 Feb 2003, 10:52
Location: Yorkshire
My Cars: Current:
Volvo V60 D4 180

Previous:
BX16RS (two of),
BX19TZI,
Xantia 2.0i saloon,
Xantia 2.0 Exclusive CT turbo Break,
Peugeot 807 2.0 HDi 110,
Renault Grand Scenic, 2.0 diesel (150bhp)
C5 X7 2.0 HDi 160 which put me off French cars possibly forever
x 16

Post by Homer »

You don't say what car it is. CV joint boots are usually fairly easy, I had the job down to 30 mins on the BX including removing and replacing the wheel.
But if you leave them you will need a new CV joint. If it gets really badly worn the joint can come apart (as I have experience of).
Not sure what he means by slipper rubber?
alan8181
Posts: 7
Joined: 05 Feb 2005, 21:31
Location:
My Cars:

Post by alan8181 »

Thanks for the replies.
It's a Peugeot 205 1.1 Petrol K reg 1991.
In that case I'll get it fixed in the next couple of weeks.
Seeing as though he diagnosed it I'll ask him to do the work rather than have some other garage charge again for finding the problem.
I think the other thing he said was a slider rubber and not a slipper rubber. Something to do with the brakes I think but he said it was split anyway.
Alan.
User avatar
fastandfurryous
Posts: 1388
Joined: 07 Jul 2004, 17:57
Location: On the road, travelling at high speed. Meep Meep.
My Cars:
x 4

Post by fastandfurryous »

The slider rubber cover on girling brakes does give up eventually, but these are very cheap indeed, and fitting (including cleaning and re-grasing the sliders) should be a 15 minute job.
CV boots are easy if you have a stretcher tool, and a pain if you haven't (depending on the car). From what I can remember, the outer joint on a 205 1.1 is actally a "tri-poid" style joint, and not dismantalable (is that even a word??!). This will need either the stretcher tool, or driveshaft removal.
Homer
Posts: 1503
Joined: 26 Feb 2003, 10:52
Location: Yorkshire
My Cars: Current:
Volvo V60 D4 180

Previous:
BX16RS (two of),
BX19TZI,
Xantia 2.0i saloon,
Xantia 2.0 Exclusive CT turbo Break,
Peugeot 807 2.0 HDi 110,
Renault Grand Scenic, 2.0 diesel (150bhp)
C5 X7 2.0 HDi 160 which put me off French cars possibly forever
x 16

Post by Homer »

Surely not a tripode(?) outer. It would never bend enough for the steering.
Every FWD car I have owned from my Fiat 128 onward had CV joints held on by circlips. My fiats had proper circlips you had to dig around in the grease and open up, the BX ones just hammered off (and the clips usually broke on the way back in).
They all had tripode inner joints though.
macaroni
Posts: 301
Joined: 24 Sep 2003, 13:35
Location: United Kingdom
My Cars:

Post by macaroni »

fastandfurryous is right, the 205 driveshaft gaiters are an absolute pain as the CV joint can't be dismantled. The 2 ways of doing it are 1) remove the driveshaft and replace the gaiter from the gearbox end - not much fun
2) get a stretcher tool and stretch the new gaiters over the CV joint.
Pug specialists should be able to do the latter for about £50 a side, mine does anyway.
User avatar
fastandfurryous
Posts: 1388
Joined: 07 Jul 2004, 17:57
Location: On the road, travelling at high speed. Meep Meep.
My Cars:
x 4

Post by fastandfurryous »

.... maybe tripoid jount was the wrong word, they certainly have a 3-pronged thingy in the middle, with a large "tulip" drive. Very hard to explain.
My local dodgey garage (run by someone called derek, who insists people call him Del... oh the irony) can do the stretchyboot option for £30+ Vicious added tax. I would guess most independents would be looking at under £50 all in.
Peugeot are odd in their use of very strange CV joints. I have yet to find a standard 6-balls-in-a-cage on any pug I dismantle.
Homer
Posts: 1503
Joined: 26 Feb 2003, 10:52
Location: Yorkshire
My Cars: Current:
Volvo V60 D4 180

Previous:
BX16RS (two of),
BX19TZI,
Xantia 2.0i saloon,
Xantia 2.0 Exclusive CT turbo Break,
Peugeot 807 2.0 HDi 110,
Renault Grand Scenic, 2.0 diesel (150bhp)
C5 X7 2.0 HDi 160 which put me off French cars possibly forever
x 16

Post by Homer »

Hmmmm...
Pretty certain the 206GTi I helped a friend take a driveshaft off had exactly the same setup as my own (at the time) 1.6 BX.
User avatar
fastandfurryous
Posts: 1388
Joined: 07 Jul 2004, 17:57
Location: On the road, travelling at high speed. Meep Meep.
My Cars:
x 4

Post by fastandfurryous »

On a 205 it depends what engine size you have as to what driveshaft it is. I think there were some serious differences on suspension and steering too, between a "small engine" (up to 1.4ish?) and the bigger engined variants.
Thinking about it, the CV joints on my 405 are the knock-off variety with a snap-ring in a groove, but I'm sure there's something a little different about them compared with a standard CV joint.
Post Reply