Robert,

I 'm highly suspicious of things that require grease but don't have a
greasing schedule.  Guess it comes from my old aviation days. I like to
grease my CV's every couple of years at minimum, but it also if I have
racked up a lot of miles in a shorter time. There may be a problem with
the type of grease. This is a good reason for routine inspections, as in
airplanes. If the frequency of greasing needs to be increased,
inspeciton will reveal the need. I realize it's a PITA on CV's but what
else is new on a V-gon.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Robert Keezer wrote:

>Recently someone posted that their CV joint(s) were drying up and making noise. They asked , "{where does the grease go?
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>Well, a friend rode with me a couple weeks ago and said- you got a dry CV joint -it was making a hideous knocking sound.
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>So, today, I removed the right rear axle and found the outer CV joint as he said- dry as a bone.
>The inner is still greasy.
>The outer is not looking good. I'll have to replace it.
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>Now I am asking the question- how does it dry up when countless old CV's I have looked at have are greasy after 20 years.
> Is it the brand of grease?is it possible to put the CV joint backtoghter wrong?  I will admit I have only been rolling on CV's for seven of my 23 years of VW's.
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>So - obviously i don't know everything and it is time for me to look at the maintenance interval chart and grease these things on time. I got a refund for my grease needle which was garbage and I knew it would not save me from this problem which I allowed to exist too long.
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>Part of the reason for this is that the noise went away for a couple of months. I thought it was something else.
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>Robert K
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>1982 Westfalia
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