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Date:         Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:20:46 -0600
Reply-To:     Zoran Mladen <zmladen@AVOLENT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Zoran Mladen <zmladen@AVOLENT.COM>
Subject:      Re: CV joint rotation ?
Comments: To: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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This is the same for Vanagons...

-----Original Message----- From: Tobin Copley [mailto:tobin.copley@UBC.CA] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:58 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: CV joint rotation ?

Speaking for loafs anyway, the following is true, iirc:

1) left and right half-shafts are the same length on manual transmissions, 2) left and right half-shafts are different lengths on automatic transmissions.

It's probably a fair bet the same hold for vanagons.

There was discussion about swapping halfshafts on the type2 list a few years ago, and while swapping is the way to reverse the loadings on old CVs, some people had reservations about doing so because the metal in the shaft itself had been stressed in one torsional direction for many thousands of miles, and the concern was that reversing the direction of the "twist" could lead to failure. Sounds a bit far fetched to me, since a stock-powered bus doesn't exactly lift the front wheels on launch, and I've never heard of someone destroying the *shaft* itself (as opposed to blowing a joint).

Bus drivers blow joints all the time...

T.

At 5:02 PM -0600 7/23/01, Damian Shaw wrote: >Beware of swapping driveaxles from one side to the other. (If that's >what people are proposing.) I don't know about Vanagons specifically >but on Quantums the driveshafts LOOK the same size on the left and right >but in actuality one is a little longer than the other. (Despite the >engine being mounted inline - on transverse mounted VWs one driveshaft >is significantly longer than the other.) > >I haven't checked Bentley for the Vanagon but in the Quantum's case >Bentley had the lengths of the shafts listed there - some differed by >mear millimeters. > >Just a 'heads up'. > >Damian

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