CHATROOM: CV Axle Boot Torn (passenger / right side)

[Dosmastr]

You can just pull it. It just makes the car FWD, no harm done.

Temporarily or for longer term? Lol
I'm not finding anything inside a couple days shipping..... And they are all like 300 bucks and up

[VStar650CL]

You can drive it that way indefinitely. It hurts nothing.

[Dosmastr]

Spinning pretty easily. Could I engage AWD to help stiffen up the shaft to loosen the nuts on the rear of drive shaft flange?

[VStar650CL]

I don't know if that will help much in and of itself, but if you engage the solenoid and lock the parking brake it should give you plenty of stoppum. The shaft will need to be replaced anyway, so sticking a bar through the rear joint and letting the body stop the rotation is probably simpler.

[Dosmastr]

Got the long piece out, just the foot and u joint from the front still attached.
Had hoped my impact gun would be here by now to make short work of that....
Hopefully tonight

Always using the parking brake, I put it in neutral, set the park brake then put in park.
I had a car with very weak motor mounts and figure is probably not a bad practice to maintain

[Dosmastr]

I'm measuring 82 inches on this drive shaft, most I'm seeing are listed 80 or 81.

81 from the one flange to the end of what I got, but there it still the u joint and other flange to account for
Huh?

[VStar650CL]

I'm not actually sure how they measure them. At the dealership we obviously use the OE parts with rare exceptions. But for aftermarket, I'd think you want to go by application and not by measure. The dimensions of the flanges on an aftermarket part may differ from OE, and that would affect the shaft length from pivot to pivot without changing the overall length from face to face.