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I have a 2004 Sierra 1500 4WD, has a 4" RCD suspension lift and a 6" body lift. When I purchased the truck, all 4 (inner/outer) CV boots were shredded. The seller told me that he had already gone through 3 sets and the shredded ones I was looking at were less than 6 months old. He took it to a local offroad shop to see if they had a solution and they told him that there was too much angle on the front axles, hence shredded boots. They adjusted the torque arms and tried to relieve the strenuous angle but they did not gain much from doing this, the new CV boots blew out within a couple months. Since I have owned it, I went down to Auto Zone and purchased a couple rebuilt axle assembly's and low and behold, I just shredded my inner boots. I do not do much offroading, mostly drive it to and from work so its not as though I am abusing them, there is something going on here that I just don't know how to fix??? My question to you all is this, can anyone recomend a source for HEAVY DUTY CV Boots? I know this is not exactly fixing the real underlining problem but if I could at least find a boot that will hold up I will be satisfied. The truck runs and drives very well, I really dont have any complaints that would justify any extreme changes with my current suspension/lift arrangment, I just dont want to keep replacing boots. Has anyone experienced this problem, what was your solution?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have a 2004 Sierra 1500 4WD, has a 4" RCD suspension lift and a 6" body lift. When I purchased the truck, all 4 (inner/outer) CV boots were shredded. The seller told me that he had already gone through 3 sets and the shredded ones I was looking at were less than 6 months old. He took it to a local offroad shop to see if they had a solution and they told him that there was too much angle on the front axles, hence shredded boots. They adjusted the torque arms and tried to relieve the strenuous angle but they did not gain much from doing this, the new CV boots blew out within a couple months. Since I have owned it, I went down to Auto Zone and purchased a couple rebuilt axle assembly's and low and behold, I just shredded my inner boots. I do not do much offroading, mostly drive it to and from work so its not as though I am abusing them, there is something going on here that I just don't know how to fix??? My question to you all is this, can anyone recomend a source for HEAVY DUTY CV Boots? I know this is not exactly fixing the real underlining problem but if I could at least find a boot that will hold up I will be satisfied. The truck runs and drives very well, I really dont have any complaints that would justify any extreme changes with my current suspension/lift arrangment, I just dont want to keep replacing boots. Has anyone experienced this problem, what was your solution?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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