Date:         Wed, 15 May 2002 09:49:18 -0400
Reply-To:     Stones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
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From:         Stones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Subject:      Re: rotating cvs and axles from left to right
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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.