Laurie -
Absolutely DO NOT spend $700 to fix your torn CV boots! I just replaced mine last weekend. Even an amateur mechanic like myself can do it in about two hours, and I really didn't think it was that difficult. I'm planning on writing a howto shortly (and there's already another one out there on one of the other sites - do a search here - somebody just posted the link last week). I personally bought one of those cheap auto parts store cv boot kits that Spazz was talking about. It seems to work fine (I don't do much off roading), but time will tell whether it holds up. The one I bought cost me about $13 and appears to be about the same quality as stock, and my stock ones held up for about 40k miles since I lifted it back in 2002.
If you don't do your own work, or can't find anyone to help you, let me know. I'm just a couple hours up the road from you, near Fort Lewis - I'm sure we could work something out.
BTW, I'm not sure how your lift was done, but if you don't have your ball joints flipped, you should probably do that when you fix your cv boots. You also might want to consider buying ball joint spacers from Darlington Offroad to further lesson the stress on your CV's.
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