In my opinion: I agree with most of the comments in this thread. This is wear but not unusual wear for CV joints. I've described my experience over the past 42 years with CV joints in several notes to this list and the SubaruVanagon yahoo list. I would repack these with a good quality molybdenum sulfide enhanced CV joint grease (synthetic or semi-synthetic) and re-install them. I like Valvoline DuraBlend and have used it for many years with great success. I replaced some worn and pitted (much worse than these) cv joints with new Lobro joints and packed them with the supplied grease. After using them for a while I had the opportunity to service them and found they were worn worse than the ones I had taken out. I cleaned and repacked the older joints with DuraBlend grease and they have given many thousands of miles of service with a Subaru converted Vanagon. I had a boot split so I repacked them again with DuraBlend and found they looked better than they did when they were re-installed. Considering the cost of the 8 cv joints on a Syncro there is no question in my mind what to do. I hope this helps. Ed |
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