Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:38 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Whatz a Good price to service CVs?
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I just get free rags at the freestore ...
all those cotton t-shirt and sweat shirts..
they're a bother to cut up into rag size pieces..
but it's free rags for life.
that's one tiny way I work to keep overhead costs down , and pass on the
savings to the customer.
reminds me of a big sign on a bar in Ancharage Alaska, in 1980.....Chilcoot
Charley's ..
they had a huge sign on the top of the bar saying 'We cheat the other guy to
save you money.'
love the irrverence of it !
on the grease....I like really good grease. Have used lots of Redline
synthetic wheel bearing grease.
That 'black slimey' moly graph grease though ...
I just have really really good luck with that stuff.
Wherever I use it ( I don't use it for wheel bearings though ) ......
that part has stayed just fine for years and years.
I mainly use it on CV joints, and on lubing the 8 or so little spots in the
throw out bearing and crosshaft areas in the clutch system. I lube shift
linagke with it too.
sure seems to stay slimey and slick. and doesn't seem sticky like wheel
bearing grease that attracts and holds grit if exposed like on say shift
linkage.
main thing though is 'lube it' !
No kidding, every last vanagon I see is despearately lacking in lube on
hundreds of little places on it, from one end to the other. I see like 50
vanagons a year. So many spots on them were last lubed in Germany at the
factory. Srpay lube is so quick and easy to use too. Who lubes their
ash tray pivot points ? - at least those won't wear out from not lubing
them, but so many othe points will.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: Whatz a Good price to service CVs?
To support what has been said: you will spend more on rags (if you
don't get them for free) than grease! You will need a LOT of rags and
paper towels will only make the mess worse. I use what my shop uses,
which is Amsoil purple, and it's a lot cleaner than moly grease. But a
mess none the less. One cartridge does four bearings.
Jim
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Bob Johnson
<b.johnson1950.2010@gmail.com> wrote:
> While you're at it, you might as well do the Rear Wheel bearings too! :o)
> If the CV's haven't been done in a long while,
> I'll bet the rear bearing's have Never been done!
>
> I'd say there's two ways to estimate costs:
> one is if new grease is just added;
> Double the price if all of the old grease is cleaned out first !
>
> I'm right in the middle of the job as we speak.
> What a mess !!!
> Now if you need to add in a couple of sets of clothing,
> ( because that old Moly is Nasty !!! )
>
> You can triple the price ! heh heh...
>
> BJ
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Michael Sullivan
> <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Not having any trouble, but I have not done them since I bought it 3
>> years
>> ago. Records show they were replaced by the PO at the stealership. What's
>> a good rpice to service them at a shop? Thanks.
>> Michael in San Antonio
>> 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
>> 73 Beetle
>>
>