Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:30:13 -0500
Reply-To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
Subject: Re: New Type of CV Boot Available - 10 Minutes and boot replaced
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Right. I've given up on that utopian idea, thanks to the list.
Today I went and bought a cv boot kit at Canadian Tire for $14.99 CDN, about
$9.50 US (but no duty or shipping!).
I'm psyched up, it's my first "real" fixit job worth talking about.
BTW: I was pulling into a gas station today, and an attractive teenage girl
leaned out of her car, and yelled, "I like your car!". She was referring, of
course, to my Westy.
Made my day!
Cheers!
Marshall Ruskin
Pristine White 84 Westy
-----Original Message-----
From: Bulley <gmbulley@bulley-hewlett.com>
To: 'Marshall Ruskin' <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
<vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 5:23 AM
Subject: RE: New Type of CV Boot Available - 10 Minutes and boot replaced
>I used the "split-boot-with-glue" in question on a Jetta in an act of
post-graduate desperation. I got what I paid for.
>
>Lasted around 10k, if I recall. Just enough time to save the cabbage for a
half-axle replacement...
>
>G. Matthew Bulley
>Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
>Cary, North Carolina, USA
>www.bulley-hewlett.com
>phone: 888.468.4880 (tollfree)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marshall Ruskin [SMTP:mruskin@PANGEA.CA]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 6:35 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: New Type of CV Boot Available - 10 Minutes and boot replaced
>
>Hi Everybody:
>
>I need your help to tell if this product will work for us. The manufacturer
>says it will.......
>
>I have a totally torn outer CV boot (at the collar), and I was scoping out
a
>replacement.
>
>Canadian Tire (Canada's biggest FLAPS) has a replacement kit with grease
and
>clamps etc for $14.99, which I thought was fair.
>
>Then, a Corporal I know saw me and recommended that instead of that type
>boot, I investigate this "split-type" boot. It's blue in color. Says he's
>used them and it is the way to go. The idea is that you just cut off your
>old boot, clean and push grease into your joint, and then wrap the "split"
>boot around. You then seal the seam with the compound they provide, and use
>the clamps provided.
>
>The boot is only good for outer CV joints, and will work with a huge number
>of vehicles. I called the company to make sure that it will work with the
>Vanagon, and they said it will, if....
>
>...If you currently have the CV boot style that uses clamps it will, no
>question about it. However....they didn't know about the other kind (which
I
>have, I think)....
>
>My CV boot doesn't "appear" to have clamps. It appears that at each end of
>the boot there is a black collar or cylinder of some kind. Maybe I don't
>know what I am seeing, as I AM a newbie. So.....
>
>...the question really becomes: If one has boots that DON'T use clamps on
>their CV Joints, can boots WITH clamps be substituted?
>
>Also: ARE there CV boot styles without clamps, sort of "press-on", or am I
>mistaken?
>
>This boot kit costs about $20.00 Canadian, and has instructions for
>installing it in different vehicles, and a toll-free support number.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>After $300 in slashed tire costs last week, the last thing I need is a $180
>boot replacement cost (from my FLVWSS)
>
>Cheers!
>
>Marshall Ruskin
>84 Westy
>
>
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