Date:         Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:05:01 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: cv joint questions
Comments: To: cmoore@CYBERPORT.COM
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With the colder weather setting in your lubricants aren't flowing quite
as well.
The CV could be your problem.
Although they ran silently before they may be starving for grease at
current temperatures.
The same applies to your front and rear wheel / axle bearings.
You speedometer cable could become noisy as well.
I'd first give the CVs a little jolt of grease and take a few days with a
wait and see attitude.
If you speedo cable is making noise use lithium (the white water proof)
grease.
I made up a simple tool to address getting the grease into the CVs
without removing the CV or the boot.
It works fairly well considering its a blind application and there is
still guesswork.
http://williamwareagency.com/forsale/stanvan/0069.htm

Stan Wilder

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:42:56 -0700 Clay Moore <cmoore@CYBERPORT.COM>
writes:
> A few days ago, while slowing down i noticed a scraping noise,
> corresponding to
> the speed of the wheel. it sounds like its coming from the right
> rear.
> i wasnt sure what it was,
> today it started making the noise while accelerating too, no noise
> while
> driving and not under
> a load.  it would also go away if i pushed in the clutch.
>
> I think it must be the outer CV joint.   i cant figure out what else
> it
> would be.
>
> question is, can it be lubed in some way, since its a dry scraping
> noise
> or am i going to have to
> have it replaced. ?
>
> are there 4 of them, and should they all be replaced or lubed ?
>
> TIA
>
>

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