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Date:         Tue, 14 May 2002 21:01:38 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
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From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: rotating cvs and axles from left to right
In-Reply-To:  <p04330110b90789e3064e@[192.168.99.102]>
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>But be sure you don't swap both left-side-for-right AND >inner-for-outer. EITHER will reverse the direction of rotation and -- >supposedly -- extend the life of the CV. But if you do BOTH, each CV >will end up rotating the same way it was before the swap, and you'll >have gained nothing but greasy hands and skinned knuckles.

Oh, man! How do I delete an ignoramus posting? (Man I hate it when I do that -- with my eyes open, no less!)

To correct:

If you want to do the swap, you MUST do a inner-for-outer swap. Swapping left-for-right axle is optional.

Dave ("I'm better now. I'm not dead yet...") -- Dave Carpenter

Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much.

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke


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