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Subject:Re: Regreasing my CV's. Flip driveshafts on reinstall good idea?
From:Mike S
Date:Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:06:47 -0400

At 04:55 PM 8/15/2009, Poppie Jagersand wrote...
>my last trip. I've heard that some reinstall the drive shaft so that
>the inner CV becomes outer and vice versa. Idea being that it will now
>wear on a new surface when torque is applied during driving. Is this a
>good idea? Anyone has had problems with flipping them like this?

Flipping the driveshaft does nothing - if you flip an axle shaft in
place, and the torque will be applied in the same way to the CV joints.
You need to either remove the CVs and flip them individually, or swap
the driveshafts L/R.