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DICKWEED Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:52 pm

Bought good CV boots from a local shop. The boots are not overstreched, but the edges are cracked up, one failed and tore. The boots are only about 3 months old. There are on type 2 cv's on a 1970 baja bug. The rear suspension is stock. This is the second set of cv boots I have installed in about 6 months. What is the best CV boots to use.

hendersoned Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:33 pm

unless you want to run bigdollar flanges and cv boots (like from McKenzees) make sure you get fresh chinese rubber/thermo plastic, I think ozone kills them, rots them even when your not using them. Real german vw parts are top quality but difficult to find...

Bruce Amacker Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:37 pm

Are you using the proper CV grease and not general purpose grease? GP stuff will eat the rubber. You must use CV grease which won't.

Good Luck!



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