BX torn boots, another solution.

[milkman]

I'm thinking this might work and at $8 and change for the hose, seems cheap enough to me, added two hose clamps and about fourty minutes work. The first pic is of the grossly wrong WHITE wire tie that had to removed and placed into the bottom of the trash barrel UNDER the rest of the garbage before I could even begin. Looks like I might have another project on the horizon, leaking O-ring on the steering will need to be replaced.

 

[Tom_H]

The ability to improvise, a strength of the American character. Nice work!

 

[offcamber]

I like the radiator hose idea...simple easy and doesn't take a master fabricator to well fabricate....

 

[lp333]

...I'm thinking this might work and at $8 and change for the hose, seems cheap enough to me, added two hose clamps and about fourty minutes work...

The best ideas are often the simplest; thanks for sharing it with us.
Great work MilkMan!

 

[mpowrd]

Nice job, milkman.

I was think of doing something exactly like this after patching one of my boots the other day. Is that hose a generic flexible hose? What is the ID of the solid ends?

Did you check the steering at full lock in both directions? When I looked at mine, it looked like there wouldn't be much room to clamp the hose on the inside of the large diameter section because it gets real close to the steering rack.

Can you take a pic with the steering full over so the inner tie rod joint section is as close to the rack as it gets?

Thanks!

 

[SPYDERLK]

My boots have been gone for years. Idly worrying about it has been effective so far. A thousand hrs later the joints are still tight.
larry

 

[milkman]

mpowrd, just got in, been tilling most of the day, I'll run out in the mornin' and get some more pics with the wheels turned. I went to Advance Auto Parts and bought the shortest piece of 1-3/4" radiator hose that they had and placed the clamp around the hose where it is over the large nut on the end of the steering cylinder and I haven't noticed a problem with turning yet.

 

[mpowrd]

Thanks! I'll look forward to the pics.

Next time I'm by the auto parts store I'm going to get a hose to chop up. Got more brush to move and don't want to tear up those boots.

 

[milkman]

Here's two pics of the right front turned hard left.

 

[milkman]

Here's two of the left, nothing interfering anywhere.