Rebuild a steering shaft grease boot

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I have been looking everywhere for a replacement grease boot for my steering coupling shaft. The closest I got was to find the whole shaft at The Truck Shop for $109 plus shipping. I'm too cheap to buy a whole new shaft just for a piece of rubber boot.
I went looking for a substitute and found a brake master cylinder gasket in the Help section that looked like it could work.

Here is the process:
1. Disassemble your coupling shaft.
2. Remove all rubber from old boot ring. I used a wire wheel on my bench grinder.
3. Cut small hole in MC gasket and lube inside of gasket to make it slippery
4. Slide rubber gasket on shaft (no jokes here, please) and push shaft boot spring over the gasket before it gets to the fat part of the shaft.
5. grease small parts and reassemble
6. old boot ring goes outside/over the MC seal and snap ring holds it all together.