Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:55:47 -0400
Reply-To: Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: CV Joint Vibration
One of my rebulit axel was empi. I have about 45K on them with out
problems. I dont even think about them.Rebuilders will go out of business
if all them are bad.I dont think they are all bad. I think a percentage of
them are assembled incorrectly by people making $5.15/hour.Rebuilders work
with percentages, like this.Especially with a/c compressors. I imagine the
only part that gets rebuilt is the inclusion of slightly oversized steel
balls. It does not take much wear in the races to cause them to go bad.New
rubber boots.Do get new bolts , as the hex heads strip easily. If this
happens in the black cave, bad news.
Oh yeah, I remember now. The axles kept coming loose. Both at the drive
flanges(not the black hole(wonder why)).I would have to go under and
tighten them up every few months.Grease was splattered everywhere ,several
times, over a year or so.One day they were ok, and the next, grease
splattered everywhere.What the ???? Last year ,I was 75 miles from home
and one axel completely broke off at the drive flange.All 6 bolts were
sheared off and the threads remained in the flange. Game over for the
drive flange.Almost game over for my Vanagon and maybe more.Can you imagin
the axel swinging around at 60mph? Wouldnt you know,75 miles from home and
with a Vanagon that would not run. The last bolt sheared 100 feet from a
doner vanagon that I had bought on ebay.I was going to strip it out.Now I
had to , but for different reasons. I didnt know I had a problem till the
last bolt sheared.I was on a dirt road and got stuck in a rut and the bolt
sheared there.0 mph I swapped drive flanges/bolts and I was ok. When I got
home, I put a bit of JB weld in the hex holes on each of the bolts. Know
what??? I have never had problems since.I still use them and am not afraid
of them.Just had to keep the evil Gleprocauns off them.They are ok now and
were ok before.Strange story.
I would just remove one,and see if they are flexable and leave it at that.
You say that this may not be the issue.Maybe belts or something? Did you
remove anything else while doing the cv swap?
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