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M54 Dust boot replacement.

Amer-team

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This according to the manual is a straightforward job, but!

Please note that if you don't want to go to all the trouble of trying to find it in the manual, the wire that secures the inner portion of the dust bood is secured by a bolt with a nut that takes an 11/32 wrench. That is not one that was in my tool box, so out of desperation, went to the metric tool box and it ended up that a 9mm wrench worked very well for this project.

As for lock wire, I will probably be in trouble from those that know what they are doing, but some electric fence wire seemed to be about the right diameter of wire and it has excellent anti corrosion properties.
 
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