Date:         Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:35:00 -0500
Reply-To:     Patrick Dooley <pdooley@GTE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Patrick Dooley <pdooley@GTE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Another CV question
Comments: To: Frayed1003 <Frayed1003@AOL.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Inner cv's have the problem of mixing gear lube with cv grease.  The problem
happens when gear lube gets past the drive axle flange seal.  Take the axles
out if installed, throughly clean the axle flange(on tranny) look for the
rubber plug.  These things can be difficult to remove sometimes.  Just make
sure its there.  It is a steel cap that has been rubberized.  Rubber feel,
steel strength.  When the plug and inner area of the flange is clean, smear
some ultra copper RTV(silicone) on the cap where meets the axle flange.  I
just blob the whole cap with RTV.  This works great.  No more gear lube in
the cv's,  I gaurantee.

good luck, PSD.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frayed1003 <Frayed1003@AOL.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, March 05, 1998 6:13 PM
Subject: Another CV question


>I just removed my drive shaft in order to replace the bad CV joint.  In
doing
>this I noticed that the inner joint grease was very runny, it ran out like
>very thick oil.  My concern and question is this.  Is it possible that the
>tranny oil could be mixing with my CV grease?  My only other idea is that
when
>I changed my left joints I bought a tube of grease from Pep Boys and
squirted
>it into all my joints.  However, the outer joint did not have the same
runny
>grease,but that was the joint that was the boot that was leaking also.
(hope
>that makes sense)  I spoke with a guy who works at a VW parts counter and
he
>said that on the Jettas and Rabbits there are cups which prevent the oil
and
>grease from mixing.  I looked and didn't see a cup, but I'm not really sure
>what I am looking for.  Thanks for any responses. Oh yeh, I doubt that it
>matters, but it's an 81 Westy