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    Axle Boot Part 1

    Mar 07, 2022 4 minutes
    by Steve Phillips

    In this article, I’ll be talking about axle boots. Most of you know what an axle boot is, but for those of you who do not, this is the boot that goes around the axle tube on a swing axle transmission or around the axle and CV of an IRS transmission. If you have a stock Bug, Ghia, Type 3 up to 1968, or Bus up to 1967, you have swing axles. If you have a 1968 and later Bus, 1969 and later Bug, Ghia, Type 3, or 1973-1974 Thing, you have IRS.

    Swing axle transmissions have one pivot point near the transmission on each side and the axle is in a

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