HI guys ive just had worst afternoon ever this is how my problem started recently ive been smelling oil burning from beneath my sei so i decided to have it jacked up to investigate well yesterday afternoon up it went and i found fault straight away aleaking rubber boot noto drastic but it was on drivers side and a% dropping on exhaust which wud answer the smell ov oil burning so without hesitation i contacted local garage he told me to bring it in today 11.30am so i did i asked how long as he seemed to be busy he replied 2hours max ok no problem then asked how much he replied £50 so i agreed 1.5hrs went by fone call off garage the bossman stated the job was bigger than he thought just a rubber boot an extra £30 so now £80 hhmmm ok go ahead so i returned to the garage 2hours later to be told it was delayed awaitng part arrival so left and returned 1.5hrs later to greeted by young lad 16-17ish doing the job iasked have you done this replied no not really only outer ones my jaw dropped never mind boss came out hi he says were getting there how 10 mins ok no bother i waited outside garage 10mins later he came ok m8 all done but i noticed you have a weep on passenger side inner seal thought thats funny wasnt there yesterday but he says it will be ok for awhile but get it sorted isuggested end of week he agreed no bother see you later i drove 1mile to my front door to my shock and belief after stopping the car a huge pool of oil on passengers side from inner cv joint tried to fone garage cannot be contacted till monday morn so im really pi**ed off now

Has anyone got a breakdown ov the drive shaft set up please

oil? assuming it is a 899 by that do not drive the cars as you would be losing gearbox oil and can cause serious damage

the boots arnt that hard to replace and would only expect it to be a hours job tops, also as far as im aware the outers have to come off due to the inner boot not being able to fit over the bearing one way


Ash

No whitz its a 1.1 yes outer does have to come off as you carnt as you say get the inner over the bearing so its only a one way job unfortunatly.Tell if there was a pin hole in passingers side inner boot and you replaced the drivers side inner boot would that create pressure on the pin hole side ????

need some more car specs here

is it around a 2000 seicento with the wet shaft box?

as most 1.1s are dry shaft gearboxes, only seen 1 wet shaft 1.1 seicento before,
If the inner boot has a leak and it is the wetshaft box then it will just leak

easiest way to tell about the box is the cv boot bolted to the gearbox via a plate?


Ash

Sorry whitz yes its a 02seicento 1.1 its defo a wet shaft box yes its bolted to gearbox via plate 3 bolts i think in a triangular shaped plate .

fixing one side should not upset the other, end of.

As suggested, do not drive car, get them to recover it to garage on a suspended tow.

Cheers

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