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Date:         Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:38:01 -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: Rear Axle replacment
Comments: To: Bryan Feddish <uprightbassghost@HOTMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <BLU162-ds929AC35CA50B5C955ABFFCE5E0@phx.gbl>
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One of the beauties of Vanagon rear axles is .. you just take 'em out .. but undoing 6 CV joints screws on each end of each axle.

no need to disassemble *anything* else at all. Very nice. !

the 6 mm allen screws can be a pain .. namely in very tight and easily round out when you go to unscrew them. ( one thing that helps immesnsely is to give each one several very hard whacks right on top of them with a good ball peen hammer and a drift..that 'wakes up' the threads considerably so they unscrew more easily. )

and .. preferred is to use the upgraded 12 point CV joint screws going back together.. they take a special tool...but they are made out of harder material and rarely ever strip out.

while we're at it .. I put in more grease than the stock specified amount. I have seen *many* fairly dry CV joints after a while.

I havn't read their article for a while.. there are many CV joint tricks like swabbing end-for-end or side to side so they drive the other way. If you take an old one apart you'll see the balls wear out a spot on the inner part from always driving that direction ..if it's a manual trans vanagon and you can swap the axles side-to-side and end-for-end ( I think that's it ) you can make them drive the other way. All I ever do is replace very loose CV joints with Lobro German ones .. if they don't have a lot of play in them .. I keep them in service. In my experience the inner ones wear more ( from being hotter, being by the trans, is my suspecion on that one ) ..I put the newer or tighter ones inboard by the trans ..and the less new ones out by the brakes.

have fun ! Scott www.turbovans.com

On 3/15/2012 2:03 PM, Bryan Feddish wrote: > Thanks, that is what I am looking for. > > So am I reading this correctly? I don’t need to take off the brake drum, etc.? > > Thanks, > Bryan > > From: John C... > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:23 PM > To: B Feddish > Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com > Subject: Re: Rear Axle replacment > > Excellent write up from Van Cafe; > > http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_16_9/cv_joint_maintenence.html > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:25 AM, B Feddish<uprightbassghost@hotmail.com> wrote: > > After I re-seal the gas tank I’d like to finally put in that rear axle that’s been sitting in my garage. It’s for my ‘83.5 Westy. I know there was a write-up on this job but I cannot seem to find it. Not sure if I want to tackle the job myself, with ensuing tongue in cheek video, or have someone else do it. > > Thanks, > Bryan > > > >


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