Showing posts with label OEM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OEM. Show all posts

Friday, August 23, 2019

Broken drive shaft boots again

During the recent routine service, the mechanic had spotted that the drive shaft boots had broken again. The last repair was done at 2014 and now it comes back as the rubber boots had cracked and leaking grease.
Anyway, I think I might just get an OEM drive shaft replacement for the car as it might not worth the money to just repair the rubber boots and the CV joint might damage due to dirt running into it.
I will find some supplier and get some quotation on the drive shaft replacement together with the suspension too. I think it's time to replace the suspension as someone had complain of noise while going through bumps.
I will further update the cost and repair done once I get all this sorted.

Link to my previous post on the drive shaft boot repair :-
https://toyotaisis.blogspot.com/search/label/Drive%20shaft%20boot

Sunday, March 30, 2014

A broken drive shaft boot

 
Its about 5 years since I drive and Isis and I have confidence in Toyota made car as it doesn't give much problem during this ownership but if its a car, it will need to service and some parts will require repair. During my last visit to the tire shop for changes of tires, I spotted some oil and grease on the left lower arm of the front suspension. Since the amount is not great, I think that it is serious and drive the car for another 5k.
However during my routine 10k service, the mechanic had advice me to have a look at the drive shaft boots of the car, the grease are leaking badly and needed a replacement of the drive shaft boots at it is loose and getting crack. So I asked for a quotation for the replacement parts. What the quotation given by the shops almost make me fall of my chair. I only need the drive shaft boots to be replaced but the shop said that they only sell the drive shaft as a whole which cost me 2k for the entire drive shaft. In my mind, why dont I just drive the car until the drive shaft broken then only I replace it ? With that I bid farewell to the shop and went to my trusty sparepart shop for advice. The shopkeeper told me that there are OEM boots for sale and it doesn't cost me 2k for it and I paid around 100+ for 4 drive shaft boots plus 2 gearbox oil seal.

 
The next day, I sent back the car to the mechanics for it to be fix and it cost me another 200+ for the entire job done. If you are having problem with drive shaft, then just buy the OEM boots and original oil seal for the job. A rubber boot still a rubber boots!

Parts number for drive shaft boots (left n right):-
FB-2117M (Brand : OHNO) - outter
FB-2120M (Brand : OHNO) - inner

Parts number for oil seal :-
90311-35054
90311-35045