Date:         Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:48:39 -0700
Reply-To:     Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: CV boots does anyone make quality boots these days ?
Comments: To: TC <trclark@shaw.ca>
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OK, time for a "shameless plug".  "Ole Putt" been the "guinea pig" for
almost 4 years and over 16K miles for the CV Boots that VWG/Airhead
Parts has had manufactured for them.  Manufactured from a high grade of
quality neoprene, the boot kit comes with the boot w/flange, CV
Bolts/Hardware and the necessary grease for lubrication.  Comes in a plain
white box.  Yep, made in China by the same manufacturer that now supplies to
Volkswagen (and a bunch of other European & Japanese makes).  No gimmicks,
these boots really work and they last.

http://www.airheadparts.com/viewDetail.asp?strMasterCat=&idproduct=5132

In fact, this past week I had a set of 4 of these installed on "Gloria"
because the originals were tearing apart.  The CV's were OK, just cleaned
and re-packed them.

YMMV
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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On 3/11/07, TC <trclark@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> So last june I had a tranny rebuilt & asked the shop to replace any boots
> that looked short for life they found 1 ...
> well 30 days the right rear inner boot spun off that metal flange so they
> replaced
> it I belive that these were  Febi branded
> well back in Jan 07 I was out with my part time mechanic doing some other
> work & we noted
> the left inner/outer started to tear so on a Sat we only had access to
> worldpac and a
> brand called Miestersatz so we put those on
> (http://www.bughaus.com/CV-Joint_Boot_Kit_-_251598201.htm)
>
> well now I see 1 of these are torn $#@$%^$#&%^&
>
> So now I decided this time to not just order blindly it looks like
> rockford cv boots appear to have a great number of good we references
> & the boot is made from a special plastic polmer
> http://www.rockfordcv.com/Bootkit_list_prices.htm#BK814-21
>
> anybody using these cv boots have any comments