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Subject:Re: CV joint reversal?
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:48:48 -0500

At 02:29 AM 1/13/2009, Karl Wolz wrote:
>If you could simply flip the CVs over, that would work, too - but you
>can't do that, since the joints themselves have an axle end and a hub
>end.  So, you cannot flip the paper slips around on the pencil.

Is there really a physical difference, other than a groove around one
side of the outer race?  I haven't been able to see any difference in
the induction hardening or anything else, and the instructions that
come with the Llobro joints don't have anything to say about it, nor
does Bentley as far as I know.

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David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"