Date:         Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:57:51 -0800
Reply-To:     Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
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Leather may be a good solution - - I've seen leather seals used for a lot of
applications involving petroleum products. Rear wheel seals on my '68
International were leather, and all of those air-over-hydraulic lifts they
used to have in the service station bays all used leather seals, usually
they lasted over twenty years before they got replaced.

I'll be checking on those Race Ready boots to see if the size comes close!

Gary

Date:    Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:54:31 -0400
> From:    Mike Riley <mkriley@FUSE.NET>
> Subject: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
>
> leather is a no go. petroleum products rot it.
> the answer is obvious get OEM ones, not ones from our great trading partner
> from across the sea.
> I am still running all 4 originals I never have had  a original split
> without gross failure of the cv joint.
> I wonder if failures are connected to the use of over-sized tires that the
> VW engineers  were too stupid to put on? don't reinvent the wheel here.<G>
> mike
>
>