[s-cars] Dust sleeve removal?

[Ingo D. Rautenberg]

David,

This is contrary to what I've been told, but YMMV.  But don't be surprised
when they don't want to honor the warranty when it fails.  The grease on the
shaft would get washed off when driving in the rain, or repeated carwashes,
and let's not even mention salt spray.  Don't know about you, but I have
always installed rubber boots to protect the shaft from the elements. And I
have yet to have a boot tear on me.

-Ingo
'91 200q20v...Slightly modified
'83 Urquattro
('90 v8q RIP)
http://hometown.aol.com/quattringo/index.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Freed, David (Exchange)" <dfreed at bear.com>
To: "'Bob Rossato'" <bob.rossato at att.net>
Cc: "'S Car List'" <S-Car-List at AudiFans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Dust sleeve removal?


> And the dust boot has to be squashed between the top of the oversize shaft
> and the underside of the spring retainer.  I prefer metal to metal so
> nothing shifts under load.  Bilstein shows pictures of nice blue silicon
> boots so I tried to get them and Bilstein recommended not to use any
boots.
> Said the springs would destroy the outer part of the bellows.  In fact
most
> OEM boots failed for this reason.  Their words, not mine.  So boots aren't
> needed with Bilsteins according to the factory.
>
> Dave
>



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