[frankym]

if I understand the problem correctly, you're having trouble stretching the boot over the stop bolts. If it were easy it wouldn't be any fun! The act of getting the boot over the bolt is only an issue because, unless you've removed the tunnel, you've got no easy way to get leverage. I think on mine, I took a big screwdriver, wrapped several layers of masking tape over the head of the screw driver, and than pryed the boot over the bolts from the inside of the boot, in other words, depressed the screwdriver into the outer perimeter (from the top) and then pulled it over the bolts.