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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>Chris,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>My '91 Carat developed a clicking sound that was the CV joint.&nbsp; A friend of mine and I changed them out for new and now I'm click-free! :-)&nbsp; Not hard work, just takes time -- you'll benefit from have a hydryalic press to push the CVs on and off, makes the job very easy.&nbsp; Also, make sure you are dead on with the bolts and I've read and heard about problems rounding out the inside of the bolt.&nbsp; Also, get good laytex gloves and really work the grease into the new CVs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>Best of luck -- We changed mine (all 4) out in less than 1/2 day.<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>YMMV</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp; -Robert<BR><BR></FONT>------ Original Message ------<BR><B>Received: </B>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:13:00 PM EST<BR><B>From: </B>chris &lt;vanagon@FRONTLEFTSPEAKERPOSSE.COM&gt;<BR><B>To: </B>vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM<BR><B>Subject: </B>when good CV's go bad?<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; WIDTH: 100%">So, something in the back is ticking. <BR><BR>It only seems to happen over 30mph, and when going up/down hill and <BR>turning slightly. <BR><BR>It just started this past weekend, so hopefully I still have time to do <BR>something to fix it and not have to replace everything with new parts. <BR><BR>I crawled under the van a moment ago, but all of the boots look perfect. <BR>The 'outer' passenger side one looks sorta scrunched up tighter than the <BR>others, is that a sign of it starting to fail? <BR><BR>The 'outer' drivers side one has some fresh-ish-looking grease in the <BR>little trailing arm thing (whatever you call that box the CV is hidden <BR>inside of.) - Perhaps that's the culprit? <BR><BR>If all the boots look ok, should I just service all 4 of them now and be <BR>done with it? or is there some way to tell which is the bad one, so I <BR>can just service and/or replace that one? <BR><BR>this is for my 81 westy. <BR><BR>thanks, <BR>chris <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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