Does no one make a split replacement boot for a Benz CV? You can get them
for about every other car made.....Have to be sure to assemble them properly
and very carefully for them to work right as you have to glue the seam
together yourself. I have put several on Ford products with good results.
Mike
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From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 240d CV boots
If the boots are not split, dont worry about it. When they do split
replace the whole axle with either a good used one or a new one from
Rusty. You could try one of the cheap ones from a parts store as well.
Replacing the boots only is not really an option unless you have all
the expensive equipment it takes to do it.
Kaleb
Steve MacSween wrote:
I'm trying to get my head around a strange thing my local indy euro parts
supplier is telling me....
One of my '82 240Ds probably should have new CV boots, to make sure it
passes the provincial inspection (they're dry cracked from age, but not
actually split yet).
So I call the parts store and I get lots of odd sounds from the other end
of
the line when they look up the boots. They say this year/model has
"homokinetic" (phonetic spelling) boots, meaning there is a metal
sleeve(?)
inside that has to be cut away with the boot, and then the new sleeve is
tricky to install. That's what I got from them, anyway.
Price is not the issue here, the kits are about $60 Cdn, but they know
where
I have the car now, a buddy's shop, and they are cautioning me that this
may
be a job for a Benz specialist.
I have, oddly enough, never ever had to touch a CV boot until now so all
this is sort of Sanskrit to me. Can anyone help me out here?
Thx
Mac
Aylmer, Quebec
'60 220s / '82 240d (x2!!) / '82 300sd
'75 Volvo 164e
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