Re: [FWDLK] Need to borrow someone's spare driveline rubber "dust shield"

[Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The rubber boots are being reporduced.  When I get home next month I'll see 
if I can dig up the information.

--Roger van Hoy


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From: "Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc" <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:58 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Need to borrow someone's spare driveline rubber "dust 
shield"


> As we all should know, this tubular-triangular corrugated-rubber  guy
> is not a  grease seal, but serves to protect....
> (very temporarily, before it quickly self-destructs, and which also
> happens to be a beotch  to install).... the driveline's
> front trunion-joint,  from road dirt, etc.
>
> I've checked around, and can't seem to find one for sale, right now.
>
> I'm thinking that I could get a local leather shop to make a fully
> functional facsimile of this guy, which might lace-up
> around itself, as I have heard that there have been leather dust boots
> created, in the past.
>
> If someone will lend me an example, I will have my shop (if it can be
> done, and I don't see why it couldn't be
> done) use it as a template to make up a "permanent" leather dust boot,
> and will give the 'lender' a free copy
> of the leather-guy (along with the return of his rubber-boot!)
>
> If this project works out, I'll refer the rest of y'all to that shop,
> which will have the template(s) to reproduce these
> dust boots.
>
> ..Unless, of course, someone can steer me to a shop which is ALREADY
> capable of turning out these leather 'boots'.
>
>
> Neil Vedder
>
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