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View Poll Results: OE axles rebooted with flex interest?
I MUST have OE rebooted axles!!! 14 73.68%
I have NO interest in OE rebooted axles 1 5.26%
Reman axles are fine as long as they are a good company 4 21.05%
I'm trying the chinease ones... 75.00 can't be wrong!! 0 0%
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Old 11-20-2010, 11:50 PM
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have had SEVERAL of the astoria boots split during the stretch with the boot gun. turns out the fingers on the tool are stamped steel, and the rough edges were just sharp enough to cut into the small end and once the abraison started, the boot just tore right in half. I pulled apart my gun, took each finger and polished them smooth.
the gun works 1000x better, and I haven't torn a boot since!

those of you using a flex or dorman boot gun, inspect the metal fingers!
So some of your new ones split after mine were splitting? That makes me feel a little better; implies that our "old rubber" theory doesn't hold.
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