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Date:         Wed, 15 May 2002 09:18:07 -0600
Reply-To:     Ben McCafferty <ben@KBMC.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ben McCafferty <ben@KBMC.NET>
Subject:      Re: rotating cvs and axles and lions and tigers and bears, Oh my!
Comments: To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM
In-Reply-To:  <c6.b902121.2a13bd60@aol.com>
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Right. If I see this correctly, you can move axles from L to R and R to L without flipping, or with flipping, and either way you will reverse the load bearing surface of the CVs. Just flipping an axle and leaving it on the same side does nothing. bmc :) "Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."

> From: Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM> > Reply-To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM > Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:32:16 EDT > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: rotating cvs and axles and lions and tigers and bears, Oh my! > > In a message dated 5/15/02 7:41:57 AM, gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM writes: > > << The preventative maintenance procedure to lengthen the service of CVs is > to swap the entire axle, intact with CV's, from one side of the van to > the other. >> > > Bulley, > > This is true and it matters not if the axle, in toto, is flipped end-for-end > during its migration from side-to-side. The result is the same. > > The pencil twisting proves nothing and may only spawn more emaciated > reasoning because flipping the pencil end-for-end, changing nothing else, > results in the noted reversal. Also, switching the pencil from hand to hand > without flipping it end-for-end, does not change its relative rotation. > > Perhaps, twisting a popsicle stick while keeping track of what is the driver > and what is driven would be illustrative of what's happening. The change in > the lay, twist, handedness, or whatever you want to call it, of the helix > formed by the popsicle stick when switched from side to side, should turn on > a few light bulbs. > > Rich (aka Rico El Luchador por la Libertad) >


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