sounds great then !
go for it.
a new product perhaps for vanagon owners !
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Felder 
  To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans ; Vanagon mailing list 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:27 PM
  Subject: Re: Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts

  Mine come apart in the good clean Alabama air. I have heard LOTS of complaints on this list about bad CV boot rubber in the last few years. But the dealer suggestion is a good one. But by the way, the leather boot idea was not intended to be temporary, but lifetime. It wouldn't take fifteen minutes to make a couple of them to try.

  Jim

  On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

    hey ..
    maybe it's the ozone  or other pollution in southern California eating the boots.
    worth considering.

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>

    To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>

    Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:13 PM

    Subject: Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts

      I am having my local shop save me some of the metal parts of discarded
      boots. I am going to try to sew up some leather (or even waterproof nylon)
      boots to replace the rubber.

      Jim

      On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:48 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

        I have had a lot of early failures of replacement boots myself and would
        love to find a source for boots that would last even 1/4th as long as the
        originals did. I have had new boots rot off a parked van inside of a year,
        parked next to a van with 20+ year old original boots still intact. I have
        wondered if it the grease, the rubber, both, or what?

        I don't see much need for clamping the small ends either. I guess if you
        drive a lot in deep water it might make a difference.

        Mark

        Jim Felder wrote:

          Let me rephrase that. Never have I seen evidence of either water or dirt
          in
          an INTACT CV joint.

          The constant splitting of this new rubber product everyone has gone to is
          what has me concerned.

          Jim