Another thing you have to look out for is that the boot can develop a
fracture in the needle puncture site.  Movement and flexing can produce a
broken boot in the future, how long?, have no idea (too many imponderables)
but have experience this in the past.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Rountree +ADw-rountree+AEA-PLANETEER.COM+AD4-
To: vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM +ADw-vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM+AD4-
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:17 AM
Subject: Grease Needle....an important find+ACE-

+AD4-Vanagoneers
+AD4-
+AD4-I was speculating earlier in the month about getting grease into my old but
+AD4-sound CV boots. Well Sunday I was wasting some time in a small Canadian
tire
+AD4-store while my wife visited her aunt in the hospital.... and I found one
+AD4-heck of a neat tool.... it's called a grease needle. Looks like a large
size
+AD4-needle with a grease fitting on the end. Well I bought a few tubes of CV
+AD4-grease and injected grease into every boot I could find..... Here's the
good
+AD4-news....My CV's (all 8 on a Syncro) are much smoother, and make very little
+AD4-road noise now..... Here's even more good news..... back on the
transmission
+AD4-are two boots, that cover the shift rod bushing. I have been having
problems
+AD4-finding 1st sometimes, the gear works find, just finding it is some what
+AD4-vague.... well now... it's very clearly defined. I really filled those
boots
+AD4-up, so they expanded and covered the whole area they can cover (they had,
+AD4-kind of, collapsed and some shift rod surface was exposed, I actually did
it
+AD4-3 times, each time adding more until they were full and until I got the
best
+AD4-response)......You ready?.... some more good news....the Tie rod ends +ACY-
ball
+AD4-joints, both got a few shots.... Now the whole front end seems a bit
+AD4-smoother... I've always wondered why there were very few grease nipples on
+AD4-the moving parts on this van????  Well now you can make your own on any
+AD4-equipment that has a boot. You will be injecting clean grease without
having
+AD4-to open or disturb anything....One thing you do have to be careful of,
these
+AD4-needles are delicate, don't go ruff housing around with them, or you could
+AD4-break it off in your joint....ooh that hurts just saying it :+AF4-)
+AD4-
+AD4-Here's the facts+ADs-....
+AD4-LubriMatic Grease injection needle,  code 11181
+AD4-Lubrimatic Stant Corp. Dixion, IL 61021
+AD4-Think it was +ACQ-5.95CDN.... One of
+AD4-the best lube tools I've ever found.
+AD4-Rob
+AD4-87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure 79k km
+AD4-Moonstone Ont.
+AD4-rountree+AEA-planeteer.com