Simply turning the shafts inside out will not place the wear on the opposite sides of the grooves. For a manual transmission swap left and right. For an automatic you have to move the joints from one shaft to the other or turn them around (install backwards on each shaft. Personally it is not worth the effort. Although this will take cars of the balls getting stuck in the groove edges, ( the clicking), grooves on both sides means excessive play. Especially on Syncros this paly can add up to some interesting effects even leading up to unexplained groans and other weird noises. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jim Arnott Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:48 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Flipping Axles to Maximize CV Joint Wear I've just spent the past hour digging through the archives. No joy. (This is why changing the Subject is important when the subject changes....) A few years ago, someone (I think Dennis Haynes) wrote an excellent explanation of how and why to flip one's halfshafts to maximize CV joint wear. The explanation labelled the joints A, B & C, D. I've tried every combination of CV, joint, axle A, B, C & D to find it and I'm drawing a blank. Did anyone bookmark it? If so, could you send the link along. (And maybe we might add it to the Vanagonauts data?) Thanks, Jim |
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