At 03:48 AM 1/21/99 +1100, Timothy Crooks, RN,CDE wrote: >Whist having work done on my 1990 GL at a VW dealer (it was insurance >work from the fire) the service manager mentioned that the tech wanted >my to know there was an axle joint, the right outer that is, was going >bad. Yes it does sound bad, I wish I could record it and send it as a >.wav file for you all to hear. > Any way my question is, is the axle joint synomonous with the CV >joint? My boot seems to be intact. Has anyone had this happen before? >I do have 215,000 miles in this thing. Is the repair labour/time >intensive? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance, >-Tim >Barnegat, NJ, USA >1990 GL > > Tim, CV=axle joint, it is not a particularly difficult job to replace the joint just time consuming. See Tom Carrington's tech page on the procedure it is an excellent guide for this filthy job. http://www.relitech.com/tomc/tomvw.htm Rick Koller '90 syncro-westie '91 gl autobox |
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