At 08:47 PM 5/14/02 -0700, you wrote: >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. It's not direction of rotation that matters, it's direction of torque. Your left half-axle will always have a clockwise torque on acceleration, and your right will always have counter-clockwise, regardless of which end is toward the tranny. The purpose of swapping the axles left to right is so that they spend a part of their life being torqued in the opposite direction, thereby wearing the opposing face of CVs. |
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