Ok If I can't find a boot for my good shaft I have an extra shaft with a bad yolk and a trashed u-joint but a perfectly good cv-joint. How the heck do you get these friggen rings out. I have inside clip pliers but I can't get them in there. any hints or tricks or maybe a different tool I can go down to sears and buy? if i can get everything apart I can put the good yolk and joint from the torn cv-boot shaft and put it on my good cv shaft with the bad joint and yolk. and get to go riding tomorrow.

 

I have a set of pliers with very small ends on them that work well but you might try a set of snap-ring pliers, expand the snap-ring then pull the joint off the shaft at the same time.

Mac tool # TP601R or TP15P might do it....

 

ScramaDamaDingDong,I know how your feeling
Not to long ago I had to replace a boot (wheel side) on my 500 and could not seperate the joint from the axel,nothing that I tryed worked,tryed many different typs of snap ring pilers and lots of cussing but no luck,I ended up pulling the hole axel from the transission seperating the joint from the axel,(tranny side)which was a piece of cake.slide the outer boot on put the joint back on the axel the innner boot and back into the trany.
If I ever have to sperate the outer joint from the axel I think that I am screwed

 

rsking 45 ,I know what you are saying ,I am going through the same trial and error right now a stone got jammed between my bearing carrier and cv joint resulting in a trashed cv boot ,I have tryed every type of pliers I can think of with no luck ,I was going to do the same as you and pull the shaft out of the rear end to do the job ,but hopefully a cv joint guru will answer to this thread and solve this mystery for me because I know it probably comes off quite easily but I am just not doing something right.