I’m having a ton of trouble with my Dorman boot gun. I bought a bunch of boots today at my chain auto parts place and they all split when I installed them. I thought it was me but I checked everything and I’m doing it the same way I’ve done it for years. I’ve done a dozen installs and never had a failure rate like this. I brought one of the boots back to the store and the girl there said she’s seeing a lot of these recently.
I expand it and it stretches but about a minute into the process it just starts splitting. It seems to start exactly at the same point. Right on a mold seam. I’m so bummed. I used to like this system. Now I hate it. I’m using the 614-001 neoprene units.
I do this job with the shaft in the differential. I succeeded on one side but things have gone badly on the current shaft. I ordered some silicone stretch boots 614-002 to try. May have to go to Astoria.
