GSR boot failure

[mavis]

We've put a couple of races on the Acura and seem to have the recurring problem of the outer CV joint boot comming apart or popping off the joint. I've heard of others having this problem. We're running stock boots and joints. Does anyone have thoughts about solutions?

[Knestis]

Boot failure is sometimes caused by centripetal acceleration "ballooning" them out at speed. Try putting tie wraps in the valleys of the boot, to hold it in shape.

K

[jlucas]

Put a piece of WD40 straw, or coffee straw under the boot on the small end of the boot and then re-band that end.

Also you can repack with synthetic grease.

[joeg]

Speaking of grease...don't overpack the joint.

[bill f]

Kirk:

Don't you mean to say:

Centrifugal Force-"a force that tends to propel a thing...from a center of rotation."

Not

Centripetal Force-"the force that is necessary to keep an object moving in a circular path and that is directed inward toward the center of rotation."
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Not trying to be picky, but I wondered if I I missed the meaning of your sentence.

Thanks.

Good racing.

Bill