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So I bought from Ebay drive shafts to replace old ones which had their outer boots split and clicking.

after putting the driver side , long one with damper, I looked at it and the inner boot near the transmission is stretched and out of shape / deformed

see pictures

I can only think of these cases
1- I got wrong shaft length and joint is being stretched

2-The Boot itself is being stretched , because the genius who assembled it placed the clamps too far , I measured the old boot and the distance between is 7.5 to 8 cm while these are almost 10.5 to 11cm meaning 3 cm more.
not sure if joint stretched causing boot to stretch or boot is stretched because distance between clamps is overdone.

3-last possibility, there is no air inside, vacuum causing this deform of boots.

I am worried about boots will tear / split very quickly if left and car is driven like this


should I remove the clamp the small one and make the distance less and hope that I can put the boot back in shape and let some air in,or????

can you advise me what are your thoughts and what I should do to correct this situation.

thanks