Date:         Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:19:55 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Bad CV Joint Turns Vanagon back home
Comments: To: Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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Once, when I was down in Virginia, I had a CV that really started
knocking bad (boot intact, though) and I found that if I got under the
Van and grabbed the axle like a javelin and thrust it back and forth
between the wheel and the tranny, that I could go quite a few miles
before having to do it again.  I drove it back to Maine before
regreasing it.

Mikel


Robert Keezer wrote:
> A bad CV turned me and a friend back home last
> night on our way to kayak on the Hood Canal.
>
> The CV boot was rotten and it tore, throwing the
> grease out from the outer-right cv.
>
> We decided to return home about 35 miles out, and
> stashed the trailer behind some buildings and hid
> it with wood pallets, to take the extra load off.
> I did'nt want to be towing it if I needed to call
> a tow truck.
>
> Now out this cold summer morning (51 F BRRRR) to
> remove the axle and change the CV. I have one
> tube of grease.
> The boot is cracked and rotten- I guess it can
> happen when you least expect it.
>
> Now I know what the faint tapping sound was.
> It turned into a loud knocking sound.
> At least we made it home, stopping to let the
> joint cool and found also stopping to go in
> reverse gave several miles of quiet.
>
> Robert
>
> 1982 Westfalia
>
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