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Date:         Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:34:34 -0800
Reply-To:     George Wietor <wietorg@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         George Wietor <wietorg@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Need size of CV bolt socket tool...12 pt 6mm???
Comments: To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM
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NO TORX! TORX is 6-pt and will mess up your 12-pt socket-headed bolts. Ask me how I know this.

A year ago I bought my $500 '87 VANAGON, knowing it would need new CV's d/t torn boots. The existing CV bolts were the hollow allen-head socket bolts shown in Haynes. I bought the Sears 3/8ths-drive metric allen tools and have used most of them on Van O'White and the Volvo Kidmobile. The replacement bolts from BD were triple-square 8 MM. Buy the tool when you buy the bolts! Buy spare bolts, just for insurance. Save the washers. And half-moons. My local VW/Volv/Merc dealer, NAPA, Furrin FLAPS,Pep Boys do not stock the tool or the washers.

Note bene: It is incredibly easy to strip out the bolt sockets-the outboard ones are hard to see and reach,too. CLEAN OUT THE SOCKETS FIRST. GENTLY TAP/SMACK THE TOOL INTO PLACE IN THE SOCKET HEAD OF THE BOLT BEFORE REMOVING OR INSTALLING. Buy/borrow a good clicker torque wrench. Use it again when you check the bolts after driving awhile.BOL Geo.

--- Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 1/19/01 8:29:47 PM, > JordanVw@AOL.COM writes: > > << i need the size of the socket that will remove > the CV axle bolts.. > > is it 6mm or 8mm? torx or allen? 12 point? > >> > > Napa calls it an 8 > mm Serrated Wrench, P/N > 2304. It is 3" long, USA made, therefore, properly > hardened and tempered.

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