Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:56:50 -0700
Reply-To: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: CV Joint failure
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Stan is right about these joints. I am wondering if
Kurt put them back together right. It is easy to put
them together so they jam. Might want to try putting
them together again but moving them one knotch in one
direction and see if they still jam
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:08:53 -0500
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt?
As long as your CVs don't have broken bearing cages
and both the inner
and
outer drives are unbroken you can easily get another
30,000 miles out
of
them if you keep them lubed up good.
Porsche uses a seal to keep the grease in and that's
not a bad idea
since VW
just skipped over it.
If you got good Boots and lots of grease I doubt you'd
ever have a
complete
failure ........... just noise.
Stan Wilder
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kennedy" <JK@PROJECTDESIGN.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt?
> I recently tried remanufactured CVs in my '87 and it
was a nightmare.
I'll
> spare the details (quality issues). As we know,
swapping CV's is not
too
> much fun. Buy new. This is money well spent.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Camealy [mailto:camealy@CTSR.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt?
>
>
> I recently pulled my CV shafts after noticing a
seat of the pants
> vibration that was not tires or bearings. After
taking them apart
they
are
> heavily scored and get jammed when moving them
around. I cleaned,
repacked,
> and reinstalled them as I had a trip to leave for,
and the problem is
still
> there as expected.
> So now should I buy a reman set of shafts for 85
a piece or a new
set
of
> shafts for 120 a piece? I am not really a stickler
as long as I get
another
> couple hundred thousand out of them. The first set
going bad at 181K
was
my
> fault for never repacking them. When I took them
apart the grease
was
like
> chunky clay.
>
> Thanks for any input,
>
> Kurt
> 87 Wolfsburg GL
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