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EA82 manual steering rack dust bellows boot


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It seems very difficult to find dust bellows for manual steering rack in 85-87 GL unless I'm not looking in the right places. I had no luck finding a universal bellows and I want to get this done soon so I got a set for power steering and I'm trying to figure out a way to use them on the manual rack.

 

so far I cut some 1-1/2" ABS pipe to fits the grooves in the manual steering rack, cut about 1/8" out of the ring so it will compress to the groove diameter. The only issue is now there is no groove for the bellows to seat in. Ideally I would machine a piece that has a groove, which I may do but also I might just pull the bellows past the ABS ring and use a hose clamp. I wonder if that will be sufficient?

 

and other ideas?

Thanks

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thanks naru I didn't realize that one would work, when I looked it seemed like the that was the same as the power steering boot but I should have looked harder, it is at parts.subaru.com. Anyway, I also made some adapters today that fit the power steering bellows to the manual rack pretty well. I thought they might be useful but I guess not

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