At 09:29 PM 4/18/2011, Richard Koerner wrote... >Read this article >http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_16_9/cv_joint_maintenence.html >gives a good picture about what's going on with CV Joints. Yep. You can also do right outer to left inner, right inner to left outer, etc... swaps. But simply flipping them in place is simpler. Swapping half shafts on a manual tranny, simpler still. I know the Bentley talks about a groove which is supposed to go on the (outside?), but no one has ever found a reason for that, AFAIK, and some replacements don't even have a groove. |
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