Has Anyone Used: Doorman Uni-Fit CV Boot Air Tool - Page 4 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Diesel911 · #46 06-17-2015, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ykobayashi

Ok, well I put on my boots today and boy oh boy did I have problems. I learned another trick so I thought I'd share. I tried using a foot pump to pump up the tool. I no longer have my compressor. So I pumped up the tool and it didn't open it up enough. It was 1/2" on the diameter shy.

Suddenly the boot ripped. I'm pretty careful. It happened when I was holding the tool in the air trying to pump it open.

I Got a new boot and a tiny $55 pancake compressor. It worked well at pumping up the tool. Then I noticed the fingers on the tool weren't closing down enough to let the boot slide off. Hehehe...I guess my memory of how easy it was distorted. The can is too big just as diesel911 said.

So the boot either wanted to slide off the tool or stay on. I got the inner on by using just enough oil to let it slide off but not so little that it would stick. It took a lot of fidgeting to get this right.

Then I put on the outer. A bit too dry and I couldn't get it off with my fingers. So I splashed the inner side of the boot with some oil. A few teaspoons. Then it worked its way around the metal fingers I could push it off.

It's funny, the older I get the more distorted my memory gets. I actually had a tough time today considering how easy I recall it being.

So maybe the trick is to oil on the light side then slather the inside with oil after you get the boot over the can.

X2 on the memory issue. In Aug I have an appointment at the VA Hospital to take a test for memory.

I was trying to explain to someone what having a bad memory actually does to you. The easiest description I could come up with is that it is as if you are dancing but you lost the rhythm. Once the rhythm is gone what happens next just gets worse.

My Wife ruined My Van Engine by driving it when it got overheated. I had not done a rebuild on an Engine since 1992. In 1992 I had a energy and look forward to the job. Not any more.
It has been more then 3 Months and I am still not done; I am on about the last 15% of the job (at least the Engine is back in the Van).

I lost several sets of Bolts on an Engine and Chassis that has metric and SAE Bolts. Fortunatly I have the Chevy Parts manual and it tells the threads and lengths of the Bolts and that was a big help.

But, when I rebuilt Engines on the Job I had been extremely careful to package and lable where bolts came from and and where the came from. Now I have no patience to do that and I only made more work for myself.

ykobayashi · #47 09-15-2015, 01:02 AM

So I've moved. Unpacked my tool cribs. I have a three car garage now. The Dorman CVs are holding up. I cinched the small sides in too close and they looks scrunched up but they don't leak. I may or may not readjust the clamps.

I revisited this thread because I realize I have two of the green air tools now. I finally got to look at them side by side in all their glory. I spent an extra $190 buying the clamp tool and boot tool plus boots and grease because I had the idiot sense to ship my tools to socal before I drove the SD there. But we made it and I'm good. Still cheaper than hiring an Indy.

Funny the silicone CVs are grey now. They were black when I got my first tool. They were much stretchier than the neoprene and you had a fighting chance to get them on with a funnel.

That's a funny one. Before I left town I decided to return the ripped boot to O'Reilly. The clerk said you didn't use the right tool. I said I did. He said nobody buys that tool and they rip the boots and want a refund. I whipped out my phone and showed him a selfie I shot with the tool.

. He gave me a refund.