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Date:         Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:11:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
Comments: To: Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
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re - "get under there after "a while"

for sure ..it's a good idea to check tightness of the CV joint screws.. like after a thousand miles say. Can't hurt .....and might prevent a bad thing from happening. Like it's normal to check them at least once, after a while.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike South" <msouth@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:11 PM Subject: Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts

> Thanks, everyone. I was planning on re-using these bolts because they > don't > have many miles on them. I wonder if the reason Scott has no trouble with > the boots splitting is that the amount of grease he puts in keeps the > rubber > "wet" or "conditioned" or whatever you call it. The boots I took off were > a > couple years old, not used too much (maybe a couple thousand miles tops) > and > looked new. They have been sitting in my garage in Texas heat, but they > were wrapped in plastic bags since the day I took them off the van a year > or > more ago. > > I found a nice close-up of schnoor safety washers here: > > http://www.schnorr.com/safetywashers.html > > I don't think the ones I scavenged had the original shape left, which > explains to me why I have read 'always replace the washers'. > > It makes me wonder what the difference would be when you torque it to spec > with or without those washers on it, since they are made to provide extra > binding via their shape. (For that matter, though, I bet you get > something > wildly different depending on how much grease gets on the bolt when you > put > it through the hole in the joint.) Since the washers flatten out over > time > it seems to me that you need to get under there after "a while" for some > definition of while and re-torque to account for the flattening. > > Anyway--mostly I just wanted to say thanks everyone for letting me know > what > the deal was, I'm leaps ahead of where I was. > > mike > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am happy to report that I have just placed my Zetec in my '85 Westy. >> Not >> even completely bolted in yet but soooo much better than "hanging on the >> hoist in the garage" stage I've been at for quite some time. >> >> Anyway--the cvs boots I have are the kind where the big end just bolts >> on. >> Anyone have a recommendation for the small end of the boot? I had to >> switch axles because I'm also doing the AT->MT conversion on this van and >> the AT axels are different. At least one of the 8 boots was on with a >> zip >> tie. I didn't see any clamps specifically for this at my FLAPS so I >> thought >> I would ask the list. >> >> Also, the place I had do it when I first bought the van apparently didn't >> put the little washers on the cv bolts (the wide, two-per-bolt, >> washer-like >> things were there, however, I'm just talking about the circular ones). I >> have only put a couple of bolts in on each side (just enough to determine >> the left-right placement of the engine in the van), using the washers >> scavenged from my MT donor van. I noticed that the washers are >> specialized, >> with little diagonal grooves or ridges on them, which makes me wonder if >> they are important, and what the purpose of those grooves are. >> >> Anyone know? >> >> Thanks, >> >> mike >>


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