Anyone tried to repair rips in their boots? Most of mine seem solid minus the rips. I was thinking some bike tire cement or maybe shoe goo? Seriously, I am not in the mood to spend another $50 bucks for boots. These aren't too bad...just need a little TLC. All input is appreciated.

buy the NEW boots from swedish treasures. be done with it. do you have to drive to the store to buy a tube of goo? deduct the costs associated with that and something for your time from the $50. the per item costs on the new ones are incredibly small.

I have a feeling that if you repair the rips a new one will just open up. Had a long chat with my neighbour and he says any rubber that is more than about 10 - 15 years is going to be in serious decline and there is really nothing to be done but replace it. He is a polymer chemist with specialty in rubber formulations so I accept him as a pretty good authority.

But if you are going to attempt a repair I had some good results with goop on my air intake elbow. Maybe if you sort of goop the entire outside of the boot the new rubber would be strong enough to hold it. Don't know what the stretch characteristics would be like though.

you will really have to degrease the boots to get the goo to stick. huffing cleaner. one of my favs. you'll need to take the wire ends off to do the boots right. i garrantee you they are going to fall apart when you go to put them back on. why bother?

I'll give it a shot on a couple of them...worst case they fall apart or best case I avoid the expense. I have the stuff...just wondering if anyone else had done it. Thanks for the feedback guys!

go get a little bottle of glycerin at the drug store prior to slipping the boots on. good lube and it helps preserve the rubber. it's works swell on all the rubber items on your car and is easy on the paint.

k

I have succesfully repaired the boot using a Wet Suit reair kit sold at dive shops. This stuff really holds up. I last did mine 4 years ago and just inspected it Saturday. Also used it to repair a tear in my swim fins--these get a lot os use and the rubber is pretty old--they are 100% bonded back together.

Jim

Too cheap to spend fifty bucks to fix an intake leak?

Think that's steep, try pricing a new valve and head and ??? for the burned valve thats gonna happpen from the too lean condition from the air leaks....


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he's not looking to repair the tube. he's refering to the injector wire boots that need replacing. i think? good fix for a leaky tube with the suba cement.

OK, I'm , can someone post a pic of the boots that are trying to be repaired?

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