what you will notice is that after hard breaking will cause more
tork that anything and taking off with a jump all the time. I feild teted
this one time ;), heard a little noise one day after working all day desided
that i was going to hit the breaks alittle harder at a stop and clunk loud
noise from the right rear, then the next stop light i did'nt go to far, lost
my right rear cv on the inside bolts came loose some snapped and twisted, but
what a pita but i was able to clean the holes on the wheel side since it was
all de-treaded inside a bit.

lets just say i needed new cv bolts and like half a day fixing it, ohh i just rebuilt the cv. that i feel does'nt alway come eazy.

Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1@JUNO.COM]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 04:57 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Rear axle question
>
> Good points, but do CVs fail catastrophically?  From what I've seen, they
> just get noisier and noisier for a long time when they need to be
> replaced.
> ----------------------- Clip -----------------------
> If the bearing cage comes apart inside the CV it pretty much wreaks havoc
> on the whole van. It can break the outer drive and lock up an axle.
> You're right though ............... it's going to get very noisy before
> it fails completely. The main fear would be the vibration it would cause
> that could possibly loosen the bolts.
>
> Stan
>
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