EasyJimbo
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 07:38 PM |
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CV Boots - cable ties
As per title, are cable ties legal for keeping CV boots in their place on the drive shafts?
thanks
James
be gentle I am new to all this :-)
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russbost
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 07:40 PM |
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Yes
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fesycresy
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 07:47 PM |
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I would have said no ?
Edit to add: Or more to the point bad practice, I've had an MOT inspector pull me up on it.
[Edited on 8/11/09 by fesycresy]
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mackei23b
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 08:01 PM |
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passed my SVA with them.
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scotlad
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 08:07 PM |
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And both the cars i've built passed sva too with no comments from the testers 
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BenB
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 08:07 PM |
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Yes. Passed plenty of MOTs with them. Never can get the little metal rings to work properly....
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adithorp
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 08:09 PM |
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Yes... but there are better clips available. For MOT they just have to be secure.
Many replacement boots are supplied with just nylon zip-ties. They'll work ok on rubber boots, but not on the plastic ones that are now being
used by some manufactuers (Renault, GM, etc). For those we've found jubilee clips are the only thing that will secure them once the original
clip has broken.
adrian
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StevenB
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 09:40 PM |
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in my experience cable ties are not up to
the job.
Me and the local garage had a falling out over
their use.
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dhutch
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 09:50 PM |
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I agree, they will got through an MOT, and garages do use them for the job. However while it doesnt no work, ive never liked it. Expensive mistake if
it fails and goes unnoticed.
Daniel
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whitestu
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 10:13 PM |
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You really need the type with a metal insert [rather than plastic] to lock the cable tie as they are much stronger.
Stu
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 8/11/09 at 10:43 PM |
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We've got a set of universal fit boots in a kit that I was pretty sceptical of but have tuned out to be excellent. They use a stainless steel
strip that you tighten with a tool that pulls them tight with a winch effect & gets them properly tight. I'm sure you must be able to buy
the strips somewhere on they're own.
Cable ties do work fine on some boots but are useless on others, as said the plastic type of boot which is now common-place.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 9/11/09 at 08:45 AM |
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Cable ties are fine but the have to be fitted properly --- clean the areas where the where the rubber and metal contact and don't use cable
ties that are too wide.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 9/11/09 at 08:47 AM |
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Good quality cable ties are incredibly reliable and shouldnt be fround at as an efficient fastner for any semi permant use. With CV boots alot relys
on the boot and CV having a lip/rib to allow the fastner to 'lock' them together. I had a CV boot a while back that didnt have a rib so
the only choice was a jubille clip. However these have a problem in themselves, the large metal screw causes an imbalance, which is not ideal. A
possible solution is to use 2 clips and have each screw at 180 degrees of each other. My Dad even does that with cable ties to keep them balanced!
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