Just be a nice guy and I'll ship you a set of either Automatic or Standard half shafts without the CV for $20.00 the pair. Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931 www.engineceramics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Didn't know there was two different CV joints.
> Sounds like someone did a bootleg repair sometime back. > > Plain shafts should be around and easily acquired, as many Vanagons as > there are today being canabalized. The Trannies and Engines go, but I > wonder if there is much demand for the shafts. They don't get used up > like engines and trannies. > > Just find a proper shaft. > > Good Hunting. > > Regards, > > John Rodgers > 88 GL Driver > > VWNut Hawk wrote: > > >I didn't mean that the other side is necessarily a different. > >I don't have the other side off and can't tell. > > > >All I know is that busdepot shows one CV for 68-91. > >And that it's for manual and automatic. > >But the damn thing I have has fewer splines and won't take > >the new CV. > >Maybe I've got a shaft from a different VW? > >Strange.... > > > > > > > >>>>Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> 12/22/2004 4:37:13 PM >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >Though I haven't replaced the CVs on the axles of my '84 automatic, I > >have > >serviced them. > > > >The left and right axles are of different lengths (which seems to be > >common > >knowledge) but all 4 CV joints are identical. > > > >Mike > >'84 GL 7 pass auto > >'85 GL Westy 4 spd > > > > > > > >>That's interesting. Though I don't drive an automatic, I've read a > >> > >> > >lot > > > > > >>on the sutomatics, and there has been a lot of discussion about them > >> > >> > >and > > > > > >>I have never heard of different numbers of splines right shaft vs > >> > >> > >left > > > > > >>shaft. The lengths are different but this is new one to me. > >> > >>Maybe someone out there really knows. > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>John Rodgers > >>88 GL Driver > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004 > >
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