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Date:         Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:56:21 +0000
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
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 vwbus@netbiz.net


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