As long as your CVs don't have broken bearing cages and both the inner and
outer drives are unbroken you can easily get another 30,000 miles out of
them if you keep them lubed up good.
Porsche uses a seal to keep the grease in and that's not a bad idea since VW
just skipped over it.
If you got good Boots and lots of grease I doubt you'd ever have a complete
failure ........... just noise.

Stan Wilder
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kennedy" <JK@PROJECTDESIGN.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt?

> I recently tried remanufactured CVs in my '87 and it was a nightmare.
I'll
> spare the details (quality issues).  As we know, swapping CV's is not too
> much fun.  Buy new.  This is money well spent.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Camealy [mailto:camealy@CTSR.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: CV Joint failure - New or Rebuilt?
>
>
>    I recently pulled my CV shafts after noticing a seat of the pants
> vibration that was not tires or bearings.  After taking them apart they
are
> heavily scored and get jammed when moving them around.  I cleaned,
repacked,
> and reinstalled them as I had a trip to leave for, and the problem is
still
> there as expected.
>    So now should I buy a reman set of shafts for 85 a piece or a new set
of
> shafts for 120 a piece?  I am not really a stickler as long as I get
another
> couple hundred thousand out of them.  The first set going bad at 181K was
my
> fault for never repacking them.  When I took them apart the grease was
like
> chunky clay.
>
> Thanks for any input,
>
> Kurt
> 87 Wolfsburg GL