Date:         Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:40:16 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
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From:         Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      A couple of CV joint questions
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Hi all:

Seems to be my time for asking lots of questions.

Took my new CV joints and bare drive shafts to a shop to have them
pressed on.  (Should've just banged them on myself, but I was busy with
other things.)

Anyway, the guy who put on the CV joints used the spring washer that comes
with the boot kit, though none of my 3 manuals shows the spring washer
being used in the Vanagon and the instructions that came with the kit
make it clear that some applications use the washer and others don't.

So, question 1): is this a big deal??  Should I insist the washer be
removed?

The guy who put on the joints also put them on "backwards" from the way
my old (original with car) CV joints were installed and "backwards" from
the way they are shown in the various manuals' illustrations.  That is,
there's a groove on the circumference of the CV joint near one of the
flat faces; it looks like the cap attached to the rubber boot might
"snap" into this groove.  But, this groove was installed AWAY from the
boots in my original joints, and the illustrations indicate likewise.
None of the manuals indicate any sort of orientation in the text, only
the pictures.

So, question #2): any significance to this?

TIA.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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