Extremely!
The bolt heads will wear into the soft metal of the boot flanges and the
bolts will come loose. You will not notice until the bolts snap but at
that point, the threaded holes in the flanges will be damaged. BTW, the
bolts should be grade 12.9 and torqued to 32 ft/lbs.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Raymond Paquette
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:04 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: How important are those two-hole washers?

Hey

Just regreased and rebooted all 4 of my rear CV joints.  Empited out
my solvent tank and found the little two hole washer things that were
originally on bolts holding the outer CV's and boots in place.

So....
How important are they anyway?  And what will happen if I don't take
it apart to put them on?

Raymond