Great tip! I'm gonna try this on my xj550. But you propably should've heated them more, to replicate temps that engine gets to. Or heat them twice before cutting just to prevent stretching once they are mounted.
Yeah it is tight. I do the 2 inner boots first. I found you have to be quite forceful and squeeze them together almost partially folding them as you squeeze them on. Making sure the carbies are already fully pressed into and secured to the intake manifolds. If the carbs are sitting proud or moving while trying to do the airbox side it is near impossible. I hope this helps
I don't think it is gas resistant but as it is on the outside it is not likely in contact with fuel. The cracks I had where micro cracks. I have since upgraded to new manifolds. There are now reasonably priced aftermarket manifolds available.
Genius. Thank you my friend for the idea.. wanna keep.my original boots. You saved me. Have a Suzuki GS850 '83
I think if you used high heat silicon on the boots before you heat shrink them it would work better.
Great idea with the heat shrink. 👍
Awesome job. I'm glad to see someone else attempt this.
Good afternoon, my manifold has an o-ring with it, is it ok to put some gasket sealer even if it has an o-ring?
Looks to me like it worked well ! The shrinkage you showed was minimal, so far, and really only cosmetic fouling. I wonder how it fared over time?
I ended up replacing the intake boots with new replacements. I wasn't very happy with the look of the heat shrink. But it did seem to work
Great tip! I'm gonna try this on my xj550. But you propably should've heated them more, to replicate temps that engine gets to. Or heat them twice before cutting just to prevent stretching once they are mounted.
question, how did you get the airbox manifolds back in with such little room. IM struggling like hell to get my new ones back in.
Yeah it is tight. I do the 2 inner boots first. I found you have to be quite forceful and squeeze them together almost partially folding them as you squeeze them on. Making sure the carbies are already fully pressed into and secured to the intake manifolds. If the carbs are sitting proud or moving while trying to do the airbox side it is near impossible.
I hope this helps
What glue did u use?
Good video. It's nice to know what'll happen down the road with the heat shrink wrap. I'd like to see someone find a solution to this.
more heat and more time before you trim it. One of those answers that's so obvious you wouldn't think of it
what does that vacuum ? where should it go?
Did you use new gaskets with the sealant or just the sealant?
I just used the sealant
Taptap Industries did the gas eat away at it?
@@Onedollarbeer Some sealants are made to work with gasoline.
What kind of gasket maker did you use? Engine to boot
from memory this one : ebay.us/tK6tkY
Is the heat shrink you used gas resistant? Were you concerned about this? Thanks!
I don't think it is gas resistant but as it is on the outside it is not likely in contact with fuel. The cracks I had where micro cracks. I have since upgraded to new manifolds. There are now reasonably priced aftermarket manifolds available.
Have you had any leaks since? Just wondering if the extra shrinking has caused leaks.
No I don't think they have started leaking. Because the perished part of the boot is still well and truly covered by the heat shrink.
eh, was worth a try. thanks for the vid
Great job i wish I knew this 10 years ago 😉
Excellent....thanks for the tip!!! ;-)
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So no good start again.
the sound is really terrible ..on top of the bad camerawork. What a mess
Noob here, why use heat shrink instead of buying new boots?
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