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[Midlife]

I have just bought the outer boot kit, 919786, from Vauxhall. It was shipped from Germany and is £81 retail (although the nice man at NOW richmond gave me a tenner off). It comes with 2 x big boot retaining clips and 2 x boot small retaining clips (Handy if I bugger one up) and the various circlips for both ends. That's all fine and dandy, but in the kit are 2 tubes of grease. One has the marking 'NTG2218-m outboard joint net: 130g and the other has '1#9163325 Grease 150g'. Even my meagre brain tells me which one the outer joint should be lubed up with but am I supposed to use both tubes putting 250g of  grease in the boot?

 

Help!

 

Peter

[Midlife]

Whoops -Just realise the the inner boot is different size and the big and small retaining clips are not interchangeable.

[Midlife]

Vauxhall have just confirmed that BOTH supplied tubes of grease are to be used onthe outer boot.

 

Peter

 

[Midlife]

When I eventually replaced the boot, the 150g tube is a different colour to the 'outer' boot grease and therefore didn't use it. In comparison with other boots I have repalced, there seemed to be ample grease to fill the joint . I can only think that the kit supplied is for both inner and outer joint replacement  so  you can either replace the outer boot by removing the inner boot and CV joint (easier to remove) or it is simpler and more profitable for GM  to supply both bits - who knows?.