| nilza |
Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:05 pm |
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Quick thing that has sprung up over the few months - I found using the T4 cv joints race prepped that my cv boots were breaking up every few trips. What it turns out was happening, the axle was actually chewing out where the rubber boot is folded into the tin section of the boot. The stock T2 boot only allows for maybe 20 degrees of travel.
So here is a quick fix for this using toyota hilux IFS boots. As a bonus these are alot more flexible rubber and cost about half of the vw boot and alot more avalible 8)
Is a really simple thing really. cut the boot off the tin, grind the inside out of the tin (the bit the axle is hitting)
Weld a piece of 1/8 wire around the outside and make sure there are no sharp edges
Cut the bottom ring of the toyota boot, they appear to be generic boot used on more than one type of toyota and have three different locating rings stepping down in sizes. The second fits very nicely over the vw tin and the welded wire fits inside the locating ring.
The very bottom ribs of the new boot are quite tight on the cv bolts and may be a bit of a fiddle to get on now, but I think as a bonus this may help stop the bolts from working loose :?:
Sorry about the cell phone pixs by the way
happy motoring
nils |
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