Help: Front right axle keeps tearing boot

[TheHunter]

Bent LCA. Mine does/did the same thing in almost the same spot.


Pretty obvious here -

Thanks man that definitely will be what I look in to! Thanks for the help.

It's somewhat a PITA to remove for the first time. Hold a ruler to it and see if its straight.

I'll check with a striaght-edge, that sounds like a good way to test it first before changing it for no reason.

Also, boots do fail on their own. Look into the folds and see if a lot of them are torn or badly cracked.

I assume thats for Raymond, as the rest of my boots have been fine, just that one has been failing repeatedly.


Do you guys think that could be causing the clunking noise, or maybe that's just a byproduct of things being off?

 

[BlkCurrantKord]

Check the endlinks! Hard to tell whats causing the clunk without inspecting everything.

 

[TheHunter]

Check the endlinks! Hard to tell whats causing the clunk without inspecting everything.

Will do as well. Just visually check them, or should I try like... shaking it? haha... I'm not sure what precisely to look for.

 

[MikeyMike]

last time i ripped my boot i used the grease as "brake quite" on my new pads lol..

i tore the boot on my rt side once too.. and my entire suspension has been replaced when i did the tein. i put front camber kit, new lower ball joint's and lca's

i have cl-s axels tho and IMO they are stronger then accords. they are thicker

real problem with my car right now is it always clunks over little bumps, i dont know if its the tein or if its the camber kit hitting the strut tower

 

[TheHunter]

Yeah Mike that sounds like the noise my car is making, the thing is it's been doing it since before I installed my Teins, so I know that isn't the problem.

The CL-s axels might be stronger, but only putting down 200 whp at the absolute max for me right now, I doubt that I need them (I seriously doubt I'm even putting out that, but its an extremely large estimate)

 

[RichBinAZ]

This may or may not be related. Not sure if this will even help... but...

Our stock V6 clunks on the right side for no apparent reason, from time to time. So i took the wheels off, got the tin snips out and cut away the rubber shock dust covers that were supposed to be attached to the upper part of the strut (under the springs). The rubber rotted and they both fell down onto the shock body. I'm guessing they were getting stuck or something.

Anyway, if it starts clunking again, it might be something else. It just isn't clunking right now.

I did notice that the rubber bushing that the bottom of the shock attaches too (Is that in the LCA??) seems to have a smile of a crack in the rubber mount, right under the center steel tube. Some of the rubber they use on this car hasn't survived the heat in AZ that well.

 

[finch13]

^ Did you cut off the bump stops too? I've destroyed mine lately and need replacing. They're kinda important.

 

[MikeyMike]

Yeah Mike that sounds like the noise my car is making, the thing is it's been doing it since before I installed my Teins, so I know that isn't the problem.

The CL-s axels might be stronger, but only putting down 200 whp at the absolute max for me right now, I doubt that I need them (I seriously doubt I'm even putting out that, but its an extremely large estimate)

i've pretty much limited mine to the ingalls upper control arms hitting the fender apron.. im gona take them out once i get new uca's. ill deal with -2 camber to get rid of that ****ing sound

 

[RichBinAZ]

Finch, I couldn't get at the bump stops (didn't really want to take those off anyway)
so they are left floating on the shock shaft. I did remove the rotten rubber that holds/held the bump stops in place, so there may be a bit more compression travel now before they get to act

The bump stops seem to be harder or rubber coated plastic.
Rich

 

[Akodo]

had the same issue on my older acura legend.

The right axle boot kept tearing. Never figured out what it was.

Then i just sold the car as is. I recall having my axles rebuilt around 4 times because of the boot kept ripping on me