Does the parking lot test work on rear drive vehicles?
The front wheels may be turned to the lock, but the CV orientation hasn't
changed.
Just wondering...

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Rodgers
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 2:56 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: CV problem?

Ed,

Depending on your source, you may very well have bad CV's, or it could
be a number of other things. Get in a large parking lot, turn the
steering when to the stops - one direction then the other - as you
driver in a tight circle. This will sometimes let you know about the
condition of the CV's by the knocking sound you will hear It shouldn't
be there on good CV's.

I don't like re-built CV's because to drill  out, machine, and install
of bigger ball bearings  is to change the geometry of the CV. And I'm
not convinced anyone can do it right and make money given the price
charged for re-builts vs the labor.and machine tool costs. I would stay
away from rebuilt's on replacements kit such as this.

Just my $0.02

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Edward Maikranz wrote:
> Ok, I had a torn boot and heard some clunking, so I replaced both rear
half
> axels with brand new ones.
> Now I have even more clunking. Very noticeable at slower speeds while
making
> left hand turns, also sometimes I hear it when starting out from a
complete
> stop,
>
> the vehicle is an 87 with a manual transmission.
>
> Do I have bad cv's or should I look elsewhere?
> Thanks,
> Ed
>
>
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