I think EVERYTHING is known to cause cancer in California. Maybe except
marijuana.
I usually use gloves (nitrile -- they are more resistant to solvents than
latex) but more to keep my hands clean than any real concern about getting
cancer from grease.
Allan
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:52 -0400,
If that is the flexx gun its not 100% needed. You can use the funnel
trick, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvBXU54cWYs
The way I saw it done in another video (mb specific) was to start with
the narrow end of the boot towards the base of the cone.
PS in that video he has lots of waht looks lik
I know it has failed just in the past couple of days because there was no sign
of oil on the boot last weekend when I did the driveshaft work, so I'm hoping
it's not too dirty yet.
Allan
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:01 +, pm7...@comcast.net wrote:
> Usually , when you notice a failed boot it has
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From: "harry watkins"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:05:54 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] It never ends... W123 CV boot failed
Allan, I know the split boots get bad mouthed by some, but I have used one
on a VW and one on a Camry, both lased many
see how it goes together, I think you will be
impressed.
I assume they are still available.
Harry
86 300 SDL
- Original Message -
From: "Allan Streib"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:29 PM
Subject: [MBZ] It never ends... W123 CV
Fresh off the success of replacing the driveshaft carrier bearing and flex
disks, I now have the passenger side inner CV joint slinging oil around under
the car.
Has anyone tried the boot and tool described here?
http://www.dieselgiant.com/mercedesaxleshaftbootreplace.htm
Does anyone actuall
