I'm doing one driveshaft at a time (driveway job, jack up one side at a atime). Hence I'll flip each CV inside out.

I took the driveshaft out and cleaned out the CV joints today. The inner CV joint shows more wear signs than the outer. (even tough the boot was torn on the outer). Should I also swap inner outer?

The new boot kit came with those fancy multipoint bolts. Anyone knows if Sears or Princess auto carry the right one? Is it a torx? Or what is the technical name I should ask for?

(I guess these new bolts should be more resistant to rounding out the head compared to the 6mm allen. The bad thing is that I'll have yet one more socket tip to carry around. (Otherwise the Diesel Westy only needs the 6mm Allen and a handful sockets to strip just about everything)

Martin
--- On Sat, 8/15/09, Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM> wrote:

> From: Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
> Subject: Re: Regreasing my CV's. Flip driveshafts on reinstall good idea?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Received: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 5:06 PM
> 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.
>

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