>       Steve, I have changed mine about a year ago now.  I made a few posts
>to the List about this and if you check the archives for steering u-joint you
>should find some info.  Mine had one of the four bearings seized up so it was
>tight not loose.  Causing the van to wiggle on the road like bad tires do.  I
>kept suspecting the tires and went through hell trying to figure out what was
>going on.  That u-joint is available from VW only and expensive !  Somebody
>should figure out how to rebuild them.  I looked for bearing caps but no luck
>up here.  Some kinda weird size.  VW engineering department again trying to
>screw us up.

A good machineshop should be able to modify the joint to take a different
inner (whatever the cross-shaped bearing housing is called).

Andrew Grebneff
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