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Date:         Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:14:24 -0700
Reply-To:     roger sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         roger sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      CV axel disaster
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What is the  worst thing that can happen with a CV axel? Well ,it almost happened to me. I drove 75 miles on sunday morning to fetch my new old 81 parts van, diesel vanagon. 75 miles on open highway, at my blistering 55mph(honest).


  When I arrived at the location of the vanagon,there was a 1/4 mile long rutted dirt drive way. I creaped along and when I was exactly where I wanted to go.(the vanagon diesel ) ,I kinda got stuckin a rut. I stalled out in first gear and heard a "ping". I put it in first,second,third fourth,reverse. Nothing. I thought I blew my trans(gowesty says Im due for it).This van would not move. Funny, I thought the third-fourth slider thing was the common ailment. It is supposed to get stuck in a gear. I was stuck in neutral. I got out and manuaklly clicked the lever into a gear. Still nothin. Well, I pushed it off the road and looked again. The CV axel was hanging down from where it was suppposed to be on the transmission drive flange. Imagin going ay 56mph and having the axle falloff gthe drive flange. A totaled vanagon and all other cars near by. I had checked it a month ago, and it was fine. New grease was splattered only recently ont eh trans/starter/shifter area. It is like
 it loosened up almost all at once. Upon closer inspection, I found that the 6 bolts that hold the axel to the trans had been completely sheared off. All 6.The threads were left inside the drive flange, and the shanks with the joint. All 6. All 6 shanks remained in the joint. You'd think that if this had happened over time, a shank or two  would have been thrown off. Not so .I got all6 at home. Turns out that I had a new flange on the parts vanagon ,only 100 feet away. It was an old style 091 trans, where my 85 has a 091/1 trans.  The drive flanges are different it turns out. By a few thousnads of an inch, the circlip wont fit.Gotta use the thinner 091 circlip with  the4 091 flange. the 091/1 circlip with the 091/1 drive flange.  What do you think?


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