Hi Sam. Thanks for reply and links.

Have seen those pages before. Closer scrutiny shows
that marks made on CV (benplace.com) are on end with
chamfered face on ball hub.

But.....

am still uncertain which end of CV goes onto drive
shaft first.

Old CV's: both ends of ball hub chamfered. New CV's
ball hubs have only one end chamfered, which is good,
but only 3 of 4 new/rebuilt Lobro's, have
alignment/paint dots on chamfered ball hub ends. The
4th is marked on opposite end. All this has recently
added to my confusion.

My concern right now is getting new ones on, and van
on road. So....

My guts tell me that on each CV, the chamfered end of
ball hub faces "inward" toward small end of boot when
installed. Presumably to facilitate introduction of
hub splines to shaft splines.

Is this correct?

(I know they should function either way, but just want
to make this install as "correct" as possible)

And sorry to all for taking up time/bandwidth with all
this text......

Neil.

--- Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET> wrote:

> look at Tom Carrington's excellent web page on this
> for pictures and
> more understandable text:
>
> http://volksweb.relitech.com/cvjoints.htm
>
> also look at Ben Huot's page on this repair which
> expands on Tom's page:
>
> http://www.benplace.com/cv_joint_maintenance.htm
>
> --
> Sam Walters
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