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Date:   Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:51:25 -0700
Reply-To:   Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:   Re: Cleaning CV
Comments:   To: neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:   <CAB2Rwfhjc9_Re6_t-pTfh1M1VRLs3td+M5NUusn3iiPXeMF7ew@mail.gmail.com>
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yup, rolling on a good flat will show any deviation.

well, that's what the bishop said to the actress anyway :)

alistair

On 2013-04-22, at 7:45 PM, neil n wrote:

> I was shoving my spare axles around just today trying to find a > voltage stabilizer I dropped on to the floor. ;) > > If one cleaned up their spare axles really well, would rolling them on > a known to to be true flat surface do much to help determine if > they're straight? > > Would be an obvious shame to install new or good used CV's onto a bent axle. > > Neil. > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> take your spare cv and axle unit and clean it up and store complete assembly in a long plastic bag. Really nice to swap in an entire axle. > > -- > Neil n > > Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca > > '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p > > '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > > Vanagon VAG Gas inline-VR Engine Swap Group: > > http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej


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