How to Know if my CV is OEM?

[CO_Fletch]

I've searched several different ways and can't find an answer to what I was hoping was an easy question.

The CVs have a shaft between the boots that is tapered in the middle (gets skinny in the middle and thicker towards both boots). The only marking I could find was on the inboard boot - "Toyoda" (not mis-spelled, it actually is with a "d"). Other than having a torn boot and a little rusty from age, they appear ok and if they are OEM, I want to reboot them. Any idea if I have OEM CVs?

If they are OEM, what other things should I look for to determine if they are still acceptable for rebooting. I just bought this with limited records so it is possible they are original - it is an '02 Limited with 270k miles. If they were original, is that many miles still ok for rebooting? I replaced these with remans for now.

 

[johnbyebye]

I've searched several different ways and can't find an answer to what I was hoping was an easy question.

The CVs have a shaft between the boots that is tapered in the middle (gets skinny in the middle and thicker towards both boots). The only marking I could find was on the inboard boot - "Toyoda" (not mis-spelled, it actually is with a "d"). Other than having a torn boot and a little rusty from age, they appear ok and if they are OEM, I want to reboot them. Any idea if I have OEM CVs?

If they are OEM, what other things should I look for to determine if they are still acceptable for rebooting. I just bought this with limited records so it is possible they are original - it is an '02 Limited with 270k miles. If they were original, is that many miles still ok for rebooting? I replaced these with remans for now.

OEM CV's will have a 35mm axle nut. I'm not sure if that's a definitive way to tell though.

 

[mtbtim]

You can tell by the style of band clamp on the boots. One of the boots has a bend over style clamp rather than a crimping style clamp. I believe this is a dead give-away it's a Toyota CV axle.

Watch this CV Axle Reboot video and you'll see the style of clamp i'm talking about.

If the boot hasn't been torn for a long time where the joint was running without grease and/or lots of road contaminants like dirt, grit and water was able to get in the joint, I'd say you're fine with rebooting.

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[68ChargerJMP]

You can tell by the style of band clamp on the boots. One of the boots has a bend over style clamp rather than a crimping style clamp. I believe this is a dead give-away it's a Toyota CV axle.

Watch this CV Axle Reboot video and you'll see the style of clamp i'm talking about.

If the boot hasn't been torn for a long time where the joint was running without grease and/or lots of road contaminants like dirt, grit and water was able to get in the joint, I'd say you're fine with rebooting.

Bringing up an old thread for this. I've been reading on how to identify oem cv axles versus aftermarket. Going by the above statement really just proves that they have oem style clamps installed( maybe a reboot), not necessarily oem axles. Is there a more definitive way of identifying the actual axle itself as being oem? Thanks.