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• Re: CV joint raceway opinion(NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:55:05 -0500
  ...This is wear but not > unusual wear for CV joints. > > I've described my experience over the past 42 years with CV joints in...
• CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:48:53 +0000
  ...Thanks again to everyone who told me about the link to Ben McCafferty's article about CV joints at Van Cafe's web site...
• Re: Bleeder Valve, CV's, After-Market Filter
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 8 Oct 1996 06:37:56 PST
  ...While your there I would go ahead and repack the CVs and check for wear. DO NOT mix parts between CV parts. >Fuel filter...
• CV or Trans noise while decelerating
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:28:25 -0700
  ...When swapping side with CVs, is it recommended to swap CVs on one side, or just do the whole drive shaft? Or is the...
• Re: Syncro CV Madness..
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 19 Apr 1995 15:48:45 -0400
  I sort of remember that it is cheaper to put in rebuilt axels the way tim says than to install your own new CV...
• Re: Errors in CV Rotation Article at Volkscafe website
  Historical mailing list - jbange
  Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:25:09 -0800
  ...The tranny puts pressure on the right hand CV in the forward direction. The wheel supplies resistance in the left hand CV, essentially putting...
• Re: � � � Re: CV joint
  Historical mailing list - Ed Shultz
  Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:25:07 EDT
  There is some good reading about CV joints on the VolksCafe website. http://volkscafe.com/main.jsp?pa=ip&ip=1150562894 -Ed In a...
• Re: Clunking in the Rear
  Historical mailing list - Bob Wing
  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:59:16 -0400
  Could be time to service the CV joints. CV joints can make noise when the load to the joint changes. You should at least...
• Syncro Front Axle Nut Sizes
  Historical mailing list - kris weber
  Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:24:37 -0500
  > I need to replace the front CV on my Syncro Westy. Does anyone know the > axle nut size and also the size on the...
• Re: Inner CV joint Allen bolt...
  Historical mailing list - John Jensen
  Sun, 18 May 2003 16:19:27 -0400
  ...After removing CV, you can remove bolt remains with a vicegrip.... John Jensen, Mudbug Pottery mudbug@toadhouse.com , http://www.toadhouse.com
• Re: CV joint failure while on a trip, what next?
  Historical mailing list - James Walldow
  Mon, 5 May 2003 00:04:47 -0800
  ...There is no chance >>of getting a new cv joint before I get home. >>Do I have to remove the whole joint though? >>Or...
• Re: Website For CV Joint Installation
  Historical mailing list - dr
  Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:24:26 -0500
  I have used this site- http://volksweb.relitech.com/cvjoints.htm John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote: >Can anyone point me to the...
• Re: Still Confused about Syncro CV Boots
  Historical mailing list - Kitzmann
  Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:14:30 -0500
  When I changed my CV boots on my 87 Syncro (still stuck in Flagstaff Arizona but that is another long story!) last spring the...
• need part suppliers numbers
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Mon, 11 Sep 95 16:08:52 EDT
  > anyone have a number for Transform? or other reliable parts distributors? > looking specifically for axle assemblies. > > jonathan > > If anyone needs CV's only not...
• Re: CV boots does anyone make quality boots these days ? maybe it is not the boot
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:23:48 -0700
  ...I recall reading of proper boot installation prior to doing my own CV's. Can't recall exactly where Could have been here: http...
• CV Grease
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 May 1995 14:38:21 -0700
  Chris, CV Grease is available from good parts places, including your friendly VW dealer, in big grease-gun tubes for about $6 or $10...
• Syncro CV Job Tools?
  Historical mailing list - David Bogle / Architecture
  Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:39:57 -0400
  Hello all, I've read the postings about CV jobs, boot replacements, grinding/braking symptoms and even Joel Walkers step by step description at...
• Re: CV Joint Vibration
  Historical mailing list - Blake Heinlein
  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:03:21 -0800
  The half shaft came as one piece (new CVs, shaft, and boots). I just bolted it in and lubed it with the grease in...
• Re: Cleaning CVs
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:30:41 -0600
  > To all who get 200,000 miles out of their CV's, congratulations. I > suspect mostly flat terrain and mostly freeway driving in your...
• Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:07:49 -0700
  ...clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts >I am having my local shop save me some of the metal parts of discarded...
• Re: cv joint lubing
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:06:57 -0500
  Steve and Listees, Just after we bought out Syncro Westfalia, one and one half years ago, we had a VW mechanic inject CV grease...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carchrae
  Mon, 5 May 2014 08:31:11 -0700
  ...Consider the thousands of vanagons there > have been that went hundreds of thousands of miles on the original CV > joints with no more fuss...
• Re: labor quote to assemble CV
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:47:26 -0600
  Assembling the cv joints is a bit tricky, but if you follow Van-Cafe's excellent directions it's a piece of cake. http...
• Re: CVs and bolts and washers, oh my
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:08:41 -0800
  ...dylan --- Anonymous Digest <jbrush@AROS.NET> wrote: > >Do the CV bolts require lock washers? Locktite? > > > >Yes, lock washers are needed. They are a special...
• Re: cv joint advice?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:52:28 -0700
  I've had no problems over the years with the gkn/lobro cv joints. I've used the old fashioned moly grease in them...
• Syncro front CV failure? Loud clanging from the front:(
  Historical mailing list - John-Reed Maffeo
  Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:43:24 -0700
  ...Can anyone confirm that this is a CV joint gone bad and if so any tips on fixing it. If not a CV joint...
• Re: Need size of CV bolt socket tool...12 pt 6mm???
  Historical mailing list - Mladen, Zoran
  Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:40:28 -0700
  ...Need size of CV bolt socket tool...12 pt 6mm??? i need the size of the socket that will remove the CV axle bolts...
• Re: Knocking sound
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:29:41 -0400
  > > If I shake the cv back and forth it goes away. If you can inject some CV joint grease in there and work it...
• Re: Bus CV boot life
  Historical mailing list - Hans Vanhethoen
  Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:15:19 -0500
  I have installed many cv boots over the years , even ones that had to be modified. The reason they break quick is they can...
• Re: SNAP! Zrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! (sheared CV axle shaft)
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:52:51 -0400
  I've seen two different folks crack a CV (or axle) on their Sycnros. Karl Mullendore and Derek Drew. So it isn't impossible...
• Stripped CV Joint Bolt
  Historical mailing list - Matt Barclay
  Thu, 26 May 2005 06:57:31 -0700
  One of the 12-point CV joint bolts on the transmission is stripped. Can't get a good hold on it with my vice...
• WTB CV Joint and fr. wheel bearings.
  Historical mailing list - John Grunkemeier
  Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
  ...inner CV boot is torn leads me to believe it is the CV joint. However, I'm not sure. I guess I am going...
• Re: Inner CV boot replacement on an '81
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:15:41 -0500
  ...Inner CV boot replacement on an '81 I was crawling around underneath the van last night, and noticed the driver's side CV boot...
• Re: need input on confusing CV joints...
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:45:13 -0800
  ...need input on confusing CV joints... > >Just to clarify, I'm pretty sure the 6mm allen bolts are the OLD >bolts... the 12 point...
• CV Joint failure
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:56:50 -0700
  ...CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt? As long as your CVs don't have broken bearing cages and both the inner and outer drives...
• Re: 9-month life on new CV boots
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:31:20 -0700
  ...9-month life on new CV boots All this talk about CV joint cleaning and booting made me take a look at my boots...
• New owner questions
  Historical mailing list - Dick Wong
  Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:44:13 -0800
  ...Is this normal? Other than the obvious CV boot, should I be also picking up the outer CV joint also? What about the other...
• Clicking from rear axle and CV wear
  Historical mailing list - Lionel Tun
  Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:26:59 -0000
  I had a click-click-click from the rear axle when turning right, so I had the left hand inner CV joint replaced. The...
• Re: Bentley really sucks
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carrington
  Mon, 3 May 1999 10:25:04 -0400
  ...http://www.relitech.com/tomc/cvjoints.htm Have fun getting dirty! Note: On the 5 Vanagons I have done tranny or CV work on...
• Re: help. noise from the rear/ CV Joint
  Historical mailing list - Marc Theune
  Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:23:18 -0500
  >My mother's 75 Scirocco broke a noisy CV once. Outer axle-end dropped down, >disconnected from the hub. A flailing axle-end at...
• Re: (rear) cv joint (again...)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:26:45 -0500
  ...Re: (rear) cv joint (again...) Hopefully this is my last question: The lobro cv joints have two sides: on one side, the inner race...
• Re: cv joints
  Historical mailing list - Wagner, James W., , SAF/AQPS
  Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:35:20 -0500
  One thing that makes work on CV joints much less messy is avoiding solvents. I just used a rag and wiped off the grease...
• Re: Flipping Axles to Maximize CV Joint Wear
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:24:24 -0700
  ...Maximize CV joint LIFE. Jim "If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in...
• Re: CV joints
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:58:35 -0800
  ...CV joints FUN BUS has over 254 k on it and the CV's are all original. Boot kits done as needed. I do...
• Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:07:12 -0700
  if non stock tire/wheel size increases the "resting angle" of the cv joints over the stock set up, then the boots will be...
• Re: replacement cv/axle assembly
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:33:43 -0800
  ...replacement cv/axle assembly hey list need to replace cv in rear of 84 MT 1.9 and i just plan on pulling the...
• Re: cv joint questions
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:05:01 -0600
  ...I made up a simple tool to address getting the grease into the CVs without removing the CV or the boot. It works fairly...
• Re: mystery noise LR
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:25:53 -0500
  ...Find a highpressure grease (Molybdenum base) that is appropriate for the Vanagon CV's and fill your grease gun. Push the needle tip under...
• Re: CV removal tips?
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sun, 14 May 2006 14:03:35 -0400
  ...As the drive shaft should be allowed to move in vice, make sure cv assembly is not "bouncing" around on vice jaws when driving...
• CV boots again.
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Sat, 15 Jul 2023 20:53:36 -0400
  I think I take out an axle to change a CV boot about 4 times a year. I’m happy to work on my...
• Re: Help! Horrible Knocking from the left rear!
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 May 1996 14:26:24 -0800
  >Chris Tucci wrote: >> Here's the problem: > ow, I dunno too much about CVs, but when I grab those shafts and = >> pull back and...
• Re: CV joint repair american way.
  Historical mailing list - Pat Dooley
  Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:28:13 -0500
  ...CV joint repair american way. > > > I think I remember over on the 'other list'(Type 1 or Type2) that the CV > joint > "allen" head...
• CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Robert Clemmer
  Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:00:10 -0400
  ...of my eye, does anyone know if there is an inside or outside to a cv joint. Bob 91 2.1 auto Perkasie, PA
• CV joints
  Historical mailing list - Dean Paul Karpowicz
  Tue, 5 Apr 1994 16:40:39 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Are older bus and Vanagon CV joints the same (interchangeable)??? I was looking at some prices listed in a magazine for good bus joints...
• Re: CV joint 12 point cap screws (bolts)
  Historical mailing list - wb6otg
  Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:02:45 -0400
  ...driver >for the 12 point cap screws (Porsche) for the Vanagon CV's. Its worth the money to buy this tool from snap-on...
• Re: just how COLD is IT??? was Re: New to Me vehicles
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:38:35 EST
  ...One rebuilt CV Vanagon engine for sale. >> what is a "CV Vanagon engine"? benT
• Re: CV article
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:37:42 -0800
  ...CV > article now available > > Good morning everyone, My first tech > article is now available on the Volks Cafe > website, covering CV joint diagnosis, > maintenance...
• Re: MrEdII Broke! And its....
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 10 Jul 1998 02:08:24 EDT
  Buslady wrote: >All 4 CVs are gone...$860.00...that's the dealer's price of course, I dont >have the $$ to get it...
• Re: CV Boot replacement...
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:04:48 -0800
  Scott D Foss wrote: > Dan, > > of course by now you know you can undo the outer CV joint screws in place > with an extension...
• Re: Best grease to use for CVs
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:16:13 +0100
  Gary, Thats garbage, 1) The UK Fish and chips are the best in the world, as with CV joints we've been addicted to...