12-04-2021, 05:51 PM | #1 |
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Hi guys. I just discovered the inner CV boots on my F83 are leaking grease. It was likely after lowering the car (and a couple of track days) since i didn't see anything last time it was raised when i was installing the springs a couple of months ago.
I think I caught this pretty early since I don't see any noticeable cracks or breaks in the rubber, and no weird noises or anything like that. I'm hoping the clamp just needs tightening after lowering the car, so thinking about cleaning up the mess, tighten things up and see how it goes. Or should i also inject some grease in there first? Open to suggestions, thanks in advance.
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12-05-2021, 03:00 AM | #3 |
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Hi. You need to vent it. When you are on track you get heat buildup and the air inside the boot needs to get out somewhere. Take a plastic strap and push it in between the boot and cv joint, then put the clamp back on as it was before. This way you get the air a possibility to get out and you won't get high air pressure inside.
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don't know about pinholes but i know guys who do the mod with plastic strap for Nurburgring track driving and it works fine for them. |
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12-14-2021, 08:24 AM | #6 |
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This happened to my 2015 M4 a year ago. Had a shop with an endurance race M4 share that it was indeed pressure build up inside and poor design. They used a pinhole fix for theirs and suggested it for mine as well. Haven't had an issue since.
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What I did on my old M4 was take a thick needle and poke thru once or twice neer the utter fold. When pressure builds up it bleeds off an no grease ever squirts out. it will weep slightly from grease breakdown but all is fine
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01-24-2022, 05:19 PM | #8 |
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So i have my car in the shop and they mentioned my rear CV on both sides are leaky. I have around 20 track days and 71k miles.
Shop mentioned there is no rebuild kit for the f80? Which he was saying ill need to buy new axles. Ive read a few posts about this "pinhole" concept. That the boot just needs to breathing room for when it is tracked and hot? However i am trying to understand, are you all just repacking the original boot, adding holes, and grease with same parts? Or swapping them to new parts? etc? Just trying to understand this better so when i talk to shop I can mention what i am hearing here.
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I called them numerous times, and I spoke with Sergio. Anyway, he kept telling me no one in the shop knows anything about it and not to worry about it. He said on of the track techs might know about it, but didn't bother to direct me to him, instead tells me to search the forums😂. I explained to him what the pinhole mod was and he knew nothing about it.
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I had the same thing happen to my CV boot, after lowering the car. I cut the old clamp off, refilled the grease, put on a new clamp. Have driven 10k miles, multiple track days, no leaks.
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