Date:         Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:43:21 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cheapo CV Boot repair(emergency only)
Comments: To: Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
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At 06:05 PM 3/25/2011, Max Wellhouse wrote:
>it for a few days with positive results so far.  I didn't try to heat
>shrink the wrap over the old boot, but that may make a slightly
>cleaner temporary fix. I would feel lucky to have access to a heat
>gun during a roadside repair.

If you're talking about what I think you are (used for wrapping
pallets of loose stuff for trucking and that sort of thing) it comes
on the roll in an un-stretched condition, and you stretch it as you
apply it.  Kind of the backwards of shrink wrap, which goes on as a
loose tube or similar until you hit it with the heat.  In fact the
stuff I've bought has been labelled "stretch wrap."

Clever fix, I bet it will hold up for a bit.  No idea how you'd get
it into those trailing arms.  Well...some ideas, but they're all more
complicated than taking the thing apart and fixing it.

Yours,
David