CV boot sizes?
Posted: 02 Aug 2008, 11:31
Has anyone else had trouble getting the right size replacement CV boots?
I noticed one of mine was split while prepping for the MOT, and went to my usual local parts shop where they know what they're doing and look after me, and to my surprise they had one in stock, and it looked right at a glance.
A couple of days later I got to fit the part; removed driveshaft, got it on the bench, cleaned it all up, separated the shaft, removed old boot, offered up new one- too small!
Back to shop, they check their parts listing and it's right, but they phone their supplier who tells them their listing is wrong and gives them an alternative part number, which also surprisingly they have in stock. This one looks too big though, and getting it home I quickly confirmed that.
The original replacement was 90mm diameter, the second one was 110mm diameter, and my CV joints are 100mm diameter!
Back to shop again, where they checked all their suppliers and all of them listed the same part number. So has anyone else had this problem?
Luckily, as I say they know what they're doing and checked through to find one of the correct size - typically though this one was £10 dearer and not in stock so I had to wait for that.
Anyway the good news in the end was that the newly-lowered Sammy the Surf Bus passed the MOT (at the second bite; the emissions were originally 0.13 over, half a turn of the mixture screw fixed that). So we should be fit for at least another year's motoring!
I noticed one of mine was split while prepping for the MOT, and went to my usual local parts shop where they know what they're doing and look after me, and to my surprise they had one in stock, and it looked right at a glance.
A couple of days later I got to fit the part; removed driveshaft, got it on the bench, cleaned it all up, separated the shaft, removed old boot, offered up new one- too small!
Back to shop, they check their parts listing and it's right, but they phone their supplier who tells them their listing is wrong and gives them an alternative part number, which also surprisingly they have in stock. This one looks too big though, and getting it home I quickly confirmed that.
The original replacement was 90mm diameter, the second one was 110mm diameter, and my CV joints are 100mm diameter!
Back to shop again, where they checked all their suppliers and all of them listed the same part number. So has anyone else had this problem?
Luckily, as I say they know what they're doing and checked through to find one of the correct size - typically though this one was £10 dearer and not in stock so I had to wait for that.
Anyway the good news in the end was that the newly-lowered Sammy the Surf Bus passed the MOT (at the second bite; the emissions were originally 0.13 over, half a turn of the mixture screw fixed that). So we should be fit for at least another year's motoring!
Brickworks, GSF and JK do the correct ones... and to be fair it sounds like the parts listings are incorrect in there books... (or they have looked it up incorrectly) the same boot has been used since 1968 for the "transporter" and only the syncro uses a different one on the outer front, or if its a 16" version the rears.... the "90" would be beetle, the "110" prob the 16"
soon put him straight when i said I bet you 10000 quid if you come and look underneath you will see I AM right and your book and knowledge are "pooh"..........