Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:05:39 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: CV Joint Swapping
Comments: To: Steve Sullivan <Steve@northwestwatch.org>
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No harm, Steve -- it's just that the pressures are in the same direction as
before.  I did the same thing and felt smug until some bright spark on the
list demonstrated with marks on a pencil that nothing had changed.

cheers
david


At 11:00 4/20/2000, Steve Sullivan wrote:
>Wrong. Wrong! Whattayamean, wrong? Seriously, I did swap mine end for end
>keeping the same axle on each side. Will something go wrong because of this?
>Do I have to go under there and swap them back. PLEASE tell I can just leave
>it as is. . .
>
>Steve
>84 Westy
>
>                 Swap the half-shafts with CV attached from one side to
>other.  I used to
>                 think you could just reverse the half-shaft end for end, but
>I was wrong.
>
>
>                 david
>                 David Beierl - Providence, RI
>                   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>                 '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>                 '85 GL "Poor Relation"

David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net