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Date:         Fri, 30 May 2003 10:21:37 -0400
Reply-To:     SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Rear axle question
In-Reply-To:  <000a01c326a8$4223a7a0$a237323f@9jgty01>
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At 08:37 AM 5/30/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Good morning all:
>
>In regards to inverting the rear axle.  Is it really worth it to extend
>the life of the CV's...? How long do we want them to last when safety and
>inconvenience are concerned ? Kind of like tires, that  last for more
>years than I really want them to because of the rubber getting dry and
>harder than it should be and loosing their ability to grip the road..


Good points, but do CVs fail catastrophically?  From what I've seen, they
just get noisier and noisier for a long time when they need to be replaced.
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