Your showing the old VW bug skills here.
Swing axles
were what they are called them back in pre-67 bugs....  Drive axles, or
half shaft
is what most call them today.

Ben Cichowski wrote:

>I may be using the wrong terminology...if so, I'm sorry.
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>By "swing axle" I'm talking about the axel coming off each side of the
>transmission with large rubber boots creating a seal to keep debris out.
>They have a full ring of allen bolts around the connection point to the
>tranny.
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>Sorry again if I got the description wrong. - Ben
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>On 11/28/07 8:49 AM, "Ben Cichowski" <cichowski@montana.edu> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I checked the archives - there was a good post similar to this - but no
>>follow up replies.
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>>I had my '88 Wolfsburg with the rear end up in the air on jack stands last
>>night to make a slave replacement easy.
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>>I noticed one of the Swing Axle Boots leaking a bit of of oil out on the
>>narrow end facing the wheel. Kind of squeezed out when I jacked it up on the
>>opposite side. I'm thinking it may be a result of jacking the van up one
>>side at a time to put in the stands, thus put extra pressure on the opposite
>>side.
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>>Has this happened to anyone else...and is it something to worry about - i.e.
>>change right away...
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>>...or is it a common occurrence from jacking the vehicle up that just leaks
>>a bit only when under pressure like this, but doesn't pose much of an issue?
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>>-Ben
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>>BTW, slave and clutch MC replacement took all of an hour or so - Thanks Ken
>>for the quality parts. The MC I got from you is about 3 times the quality of
>>the one I took out from the PO...and the "new" slave he had put in looked
>>like it had been through a war. Now I'm just waiting on my pressure bleeder
>>now to come in.
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