I came across this thread that pointed me at how to clock your CV joints. It basically involves ensuring that the wide/narrow parts of the CV do not match. The theory all seems very sane to me. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7038607#7038607http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7038607#7038607 Have any of you heard of this before? I read somewhere about people adjusting the small end of CV boots further toward the centre of the axle to stop "clacking" - that sounds like perhaps it could be a bad way of fixing an 'unclocked' axle. Perhaps this accounts for a higher CV boot failure as well? All seems plausible. Certainly better quality boots will last longer, but asking a CV boot to hold the joint in alignment seems like the wrong part doing the work. Tom
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Project Pat <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote: > My experience with Rockford was many years ago, put 4 new boots on a > Scirocco; 2 of them failed within a couple months. > Of course that was years ago and YMMV. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > Gnarlodious > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:15 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: CV Joints > > A company called Rockford allegedly makes a high quality > Elastopolymer... > |
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