Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:56:21 +0000
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From: vwbus@netbiz.net
Subject: Lobro CV Joint WARNING, more observations
Something really weird just came up yesterday that people should be
aware of in case you are buying spares. Recently I purchased 4
German joints at an excellent price from the Bus Depot (thanks Ron)
and as I mentioned in a previous post looked at all of them to answer
some questions about assembly orientation on new joints. These were
to be spares and if I wasn't dying to know they would have sat around
for months before I looked at them. So thing was, one of them was
MISSING a ball. I emailed Ron immediately who was of course
instantly willing to exchange at his shipping cost, but as we were
working a swap for some other parts, I drove up the other day to
exchange. Now the one with the missing ball had been previously
opened and reassembled backwards to boot, so I thought nothing of it,
just figured his supplier had got it back and sent it out again sort
of thing never noticing the missing ball. So off hand when I got my
new one (Ron had 3-4 sitting there) we opened it up to look at when
it was built (answer more of my undying CV joint questions) and guess
what, 1 out of the 3 new ones he had was MISSING ONE BALL, now no way
these had ever been opened before, unbroken boxes and the paper
wrapping was as it left the factory (if you unwrap one, you will
never get the paper back on like new), so only conclusion was they
left der Fatherland like this. Ron and I were rather flabergasted
and not too impreessed to say the least. He will certainly be
checking all those he sends out in the future, but a word of warning,
to anyone buying Lobro CV's anywhere else, if you are buying them as
spares or will not get around to using them during the return period,
OPEN THEM UP, and take a look at them.
And the one other interesting piece of info, my new one is a '96
built joint and back to the old style, has the raised dimple on the
inner race that the thrust washer origionally set against, and it is
pointed toward the inside like the cage chamfer, which is how I
surmised they had origionally been.
John
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