[Vwdiesel] Tie rods and Wheel Bearings

[Chris Geiser]

I had a Heck of a time with that very thing, and my subframe/rack were out and on the ground in front of me... Eventually got it... I think the boots stretched out a bit while I was pulling on them so long, that they finally slipped over and stayed.

Chris Geiser

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-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Lane <eriklane at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 3:19 PM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Tie rods and Wheel Bearings

I have a question for anyone who has replaced their boots before. Have
you had problems getting them on? I to this day still don't have the
one side of my steering rack mounted right. Well, the rack is fine,
but I couldn't force the boot to go up and over it. It seemed pretty
obvious which way the boot had to go on, because one side was smaller
than the other, but even the bigger side refused to go up and over the
rack. Is there something I'm missing? Do people just force them as
hard as it takes? I'm pretty sure I have the right part. In that link
it's the first one, for cars without power steering, and mine doesn't
have power steering. I didn't want to get too aggressive with it and
tear it or something. It really looked like it would damage something
if I forced it that hard.

Thanks!
Erik

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Marco <nwmarco at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the link.  I've purchased from them before.
>
> The boots here are listed as rack and pinion boots and not tie rod boots so they go by different names it seems.
>
> Cheers,
> Marco
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Will Taygan <william at taygan.com>
> To: Marco <nwmarco at yahoo.com>
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 8:59:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Tie rods and Wheel Bearings
>
> About $4 at AutohausAZ.com http://tinyurl.com/25ndsch
>
> Will in Alaska.
>
> On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 09:53 -0700, Marco wrote:
>> Thanks.  Does anyone have a good source for the protective boots on the inner tie rod ends?
>>
>> The usual websites I use don't seem to have them and the only place that does is vwdiesel.com
>>
>> Also, when I was down there, I noticed my CV boots are also in bad shape, do I need to replace the entire joint or can I just replace the boot?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "LBaird119 at aol.com" <LBaird119 at aol.com>
>> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
>> Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 11:53:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Tie rods and Wheel Bearings
>>
>> In a message dated 6/12/2010 9:04:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> nwmarco at yahoo.com writes:
>>
>> > The tie rods will have to wait.  The rubbing noise is gone from the
>> > driver's side wheel now, so at least that has been taken care of.
>> >
>>
>>   Yay!  Way to go even with the setbacks!
>>     Loren
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