Date:         Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:39:43 -0400
Reply-To:     Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
Organization: Rountree R&D
Subject:      Re: CV GREASE?
Comments: To: ThingGuy@AOL.COM
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Just to let people know how my experience with having used that grease
needle to grease all my CV's turned out.... after about 7,000km (and a hot
trip to Fla.) I am just now starting to get a little bit of grease coming
out of my boots but NOT at the hole made by the needle... only at the small
end of the boots.... just as a guide, I used 20 pumps (with a hand grease
gun) and Canadian Tire CV grease on each boot.... looks like I could have
used 30 pumps, no problem.... It made all the joints quieter.
Rob
87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure 87k km
Moonstone Ont.
Syncro87@Hotmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Lashley Subject: Re: CV GREASE?
> In a message dated 6/22/99 2:48:37 PM, vanpire@BIBBS.COM wrote:
>
> <<Any and all advice will be appreciated.  BTW, I'm going to use the
> needle to inject it through the boot.  Never taken a axle off a vanagon
> before, but the outboards look difficult to put a wrench on.
>
> TIA.
> Fred 89 Westy
> >>
>
> Fred,
> Putting a hole in your CV is not a good idea.  If you must, at least clean
> the area and dab some rubber cement or other type of sealer to cover the
> holes.
>
> The CVs will fling the grease around inside the boot, and it will come out
> the holes even if they are pin sized.  I tried this trick on my '74 when
the
> CV started to clatter on a camping trip.  I tried to seal up the holes,
but I
> still had grease coming out as I drove.
>
> Steve Lashley
> '74 Campmobile
> '93 EV MV
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