In a message dated 11/12/2004 5:15:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

This has  been my experience with rebuilt CVs - NOT WORTH THE MONEY!
Original, new,  Lobro units will be slightly more expensive, but they last
literally 100X  longer.

Hold on there one little minute.  There are  good rebuilds and bad rebuilds.
I have been using rebuilt axles with  CVs for my personal vans and my
customers vans for many years and have NEVER had  one fail.  The ones I'm getting
recently are from NAPA and come  with a lifetime warranty.  They are coming from
a company in Toronto and no  I do not have the name handy.  The price on the
last ones for an auto  tranny Vanagon I received a few weeks ago were $204.41
each axle.   There was or still is a company in Gatineau, CV Tech, selling
rebuilt axles with  CVs that had a horrible reputation for failure.  So you gots
to get the  good stuff !

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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camping event, Almonte, ON, June 09 ~ 12, 2005
'87 Westy, '90 Carat &  Lionel Trains
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