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Weather Strip, CV Boot and Seal Repair
You know the nagging issue when you tear out a weather strip in your door because something or for the most part your seat belt buckle got slammed into it? Only to find out the strip is $200.00 Bucks' Or Your CV boot is torn and you just don’t have the time to repair it? But you don’t want to lose more grease and destroy your CV? In any event there is a cure to help you out.
Testament Number 1
As a scuba diver in the great lakes riddled with Zebra Mussels, one would be not all with it to dive without a good pair of gloves if one is of a curious nature like me and friends. Gloves that give decent protection and dexterity are generally made with a combination of neoprene with leather fingers. However tough the fingers might be, over a very short period of time (sometimes even one dive) the leather is no match for the razor sharp shells of a Zebra Mussels. One day a fellow diver who is quite the scavenger looked at my gloves and handed me tube of this stuff called Aqua Seal, Neoprene repair?? He said to smear it on the finger tips and this will add a tremendous amount of protection while still giving me the dexterity I needed. Obviously I did, and I have never stopped using the stuff since, especially since it works great!
Testament Number 2
I was always battling with my neoprene air cleaner gasket that resides in my "74" Vette. It’s a one piece design, in this I mean its 24" long in one strip. Thus when you feed the strip around the air cleaner the two ends come together without any means to keep them in place. Most guys try to tape the ends together only to finds that in a very short period of time the gasket pulls apart and flattens. Perplexed as to getting this constant issue resolved I resorted to using the Aqua Seal and in no time I had a perfectly fitted gasket that looks like it was molded in place. Not heat, gasoline, or time has caused this to change or pull apart.
Testament Number 3
Suddenly remembering I had an issue with my door strip torn on my SUV due to the seat belt buckle having been slammed in the door, I again applied Aqua Seal to surfaces and, brand new no issues and saved me $85.00.
Testament Number 4
After working on replacing the rotors and pads on my SUV I noticed a small peppering of grease on my shock tower. Perplexed but somewhat fear full that I knew what this was, I took a close look at my CV boot and sure enough it had a small tear in the inboard side of the unit. The make things worse I needed to get on the road within 24 hours and head out on a 1200 mile trip. Well since there was very little grease present on the surfaces, and there was a lot of grease in the boot, my assumption was that this was a new situation and there was sufficient lubrication to take me out and back. I first panicked and thought should I go and get one of those 2 piece repair boots? Should I use a self-vulcanizing tape? How about glue or some kind of sealant? Scrambling online I was right in my assumption that my boots were made of neoprene! Cool! I had just the stuff - Aqua Seal! I cleaned the surface and the interior of the split, squeezed a nice bead of sealant on the tear and into the split. In the morning I test drove the unit and there were no issues. I took the SUV on the trip never spewing a drop of grease, even after driving in 4 wheels in deep snow for over a week; obviously I did check it every day. After returning from our trip, and as a month passed by I honestly forgot about the repair. However one day I had to run the unit in for service, and remembered about the repair asked that they check the boot. Shortly thereafter the service manager called and stated that there was no tear in the boot that they could find. I indicated to him how far back it was and that the material is clear, after another search they did manage to locate the tear and said it was sealed like it was manufactured that way. Thus I am still driving on it after one year.
