NO TORX!
TORX is 6-pt and will mess up your 12-pt socket-headed
bolts. Ask me how I know this.

A year ago I bought my $500 '87 VANAGON, knowing it
would need new CV's d/t torn boots.  The existing CV
bolts were the hollow allen-head socket bolts shown in
Haynes. I bought the Sears 3/8ths-drive metric allen
tools and have used most of them on Van O'White and
the Volvo Kidmobile.
The replacement bolts from BD were triple-square 8 MM.
Buy the tool when you buy the bolts! Buy spare bolts,
just for insurance. Save the washers. And half-moons.
My local VW/Volv/Merc dealer, NAPA, Furrin FLAPS,Pep
Boys do not stock the tool or the washers.

Note bene: It is incredibly easy to strip out the bolt
sockets-the outboard ones are hard to see and
reach,too. CLEAN OUT THE SOCKETS FIRST.  GENTLY
TAP/SMACK THE TOOL INTO PLACE IN THE SOCKET HEAD OF
THE BOLT BEFORE REMOVING OR INSTALLING.
Buy/borrow a good clicker torque wrench. Use it again
when you check the bolts after driving awhile.BOL Geo.

--- Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 1/19/01 8:29:47 PM,
> JordanVw@AOL.COM writes:
>
> << i need the size of the socket that will remove
> the CV axle bolts..
>
> is it 6mm or 8mm?    torx or allen?   12 point?
>  >>
>
> Napa calls it an 8
> mm Serrated Wrench, P/N
> 2304.  It is 3" long, USA made, therefore, properly
> hardened and tempered.

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