Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:16:15 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
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Johnson Foreign Auto, my local Vanagon gurus, does not use an inside clamp
or tie. They claim, and I agree, that the grease should be clinging to the
joint and not loose in the boot enough to come out onto the axle and that
has been my experience in 21 years of vanagon ownership.
What concerns me is the splitting boots themselves, all of them crack within
a year no matter where I get them from. I have asked my local shop to save
me a pair of old ones so I can remove the rubber and experiment with sewing
up some leather replacements.
Jim
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> good zip ties work fine.
> I have not seen that grease comes out,
> or water/crud gets in, even with no zip tie or clamp.
>
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Hargrave" <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
>
>
> Some of the VW replacement boots came with what look like large plastic
>> ZIP
>> ties - I've put them on several BUG axles and never had a problem with
>> them.
>>
>> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
>> www.stir-plate.com
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.**com<vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>]
>> On Behalf Of
>> Mike South
>> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:14 PM
>> To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>> Subject: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am happy to report that I have just placed my Zetec in my '85 Westy.
>> Not
>> even completely bolted in yet but soooo much better than "hanging on the
>> hoist in the garage" stage I've been at for quite some time.
>>
>> Anyway--the cvs boots I have are the kind where the big end just bolts on.
>> Anyone have a recommendation for the small end of the boot? I had to
>> switch axles because I'm also doing the AT->MT conversion on this van and
>> the AT axels are different. At least one of the 8 boots was on with a zip
>> tie. I didn't see any clamps specifically for this at my FLAPS so I
>> thought
>> I would ask the list.
>>
>> Also, the place I had do it when I first bought the van apparently didn't
>> put the little washers on the cv bolts (the wide, two-per-bolt,
>> washer-like
>> things were there, however, I'm just talking about the circular ones). I
>> have only put a couple of bolts in on each side (just enough to determine
>> the left-right placement of the engine in the van), using the washers
>> scavenged from my MT donor van. I noticed that the washers are
>> specialized,
>> with little diagonal grooves or ridges on them, which makes me wonder if
>> they are important, and what the purpose of those grooves are.
>>
>> Anyone know?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> mike
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