Get yourself a grease gun, and a "Needle Tip" for it. Find a
highpressure grease (Molybdenum base) that is appropriate for the
Vanagon CV's and fill your grease gun. Push the needle tip under the
axleshaft end of the rubber boot on the CV and give several shots of
grease into the boot.

This procedure may get you by for some miles before you need to pull the
CV's for service. When you do, be sure they are cleaned thoroughly and
inspected for pitting before re-assembly. Replace those showing any
damage whatsoever.

Changing the CV's is a fairly straight forwarward process, once you have
all your tools assembled on your work bench/space. Just takes a few
hours however. I changed mine out in my driveway.

As for choices of CV's, I prefer to run Lobros on my machine. Just my
personal choice.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Gerald Masar wrote:

>Hope everyone hasn't left town, yet.
>I was planning to on Monday, a long trip, but now not sure.
>I have a slight ticking noise coming from the area of left rear wheel, noticeable when
>coasting to a stop, in gear or out, speed-related. It started out as barely
>noticeable, but now seems to be louder.
>I have eliminated rocks in the treads, and the wheel cover and checked the wheel bolts
>and CV bolts. A local VW mechanic jacked up that wheel and spun it, couldn't hear it,
>but did say the bearings sounded "a little dry".
>So, any suggestions? Will a "little dry" bearing make it 1,200 miles.
>Thanks for any help.
>Jerry
>'90 Westy, 162K
>(are you listening Bob in SLC?)
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