Weird tips and tricks

Here’s one we used recently to install the new rubber boots on a new set of torsion bars.

Create a stack of sockets with the smallest being the size of the opening of the boot and the largest being the diameter of the hex head end of the torsion bar. Run a long bolt through the middle of the socket stack and secure with a nut to hold the stack rigid. Then lube the boot and work slowly from one socket to the next until it reaches the largest size. Then place it against the hex head end of the t-bar and pull it over.

By slowly moving from one size socket to the next, the boot doesn’t get over stretched and rip.

Was very easy to do and worked like a charm.