One way the rear can get that bad is if the axle lock was engaged all the time. ERic Jason Willenbrock wrote: > hey all, > for those of you who know, i have been doing the PM on my 87 syncro > westy project. (rescued syncro with 70k on it, absolutely no trim but > engine strong and tranny seemingly strong, getting it prepped and > ready to paint) anyways, i pulled the rear cvs. it took a good day > to get them out, clean them up and disassemble them. well this is what > i uncovered: cages on two of them completely cracked, severe wear > pattern fom the ball, and all kinds of dents and dings on the outter > disk showing someone has screwed around with these before, a hack no > less. anyways, i am doing some private eye work here. on a > relatively low mileage van, not well maintained though, how could the > cv's be in such bad shape? ran out of grease from bad boots and found > out too late? looks they like they binded up in a bad way. but how > could all four be so bad? i am curious how they could get so bad. > any ideas here? > jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. > <http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2728??PS=> |
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