Be careful about overfilling the CV boots.  The grease expands and contracts
due to temperature and will prematurely wear out you boots (or pop them!).

Back in my racing days, we put vents on the CV boots to help prevent them
from popping during the race.

Of course we were also running leather CV boots and micro stubs with 22" of
travel...

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:56 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: CV Joints (as long as we are discussing it)

after reading this I checked to see how much I really put in.
Thought maybe I had overstated how much I put in.

I do get about 3 CV joints well full of grease from almost two full 14 oz
'grease gun' tubes of Moly-graph.

then  I got out a small package of grease that came with a Lobro Boot Kit ..
and it's 90 grams or 3.17 oz.
and it sure looks like not nearly enough to me .
Especially on a dry brand new CV joint ..
I problaby put in  3 times that much ...up to 9 oz.. at least 6 to 7 oz.

scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: CV Joints (as long as we are discussing it)

> At 11:27 AM 4/19/2011, Steven Johnson wrote:
>>like to know what is the best grease to use for CVs?
>
> CV joint grease.  Really.  However VW later revised their spec to put
> in more than the 90 gram tube, more like 120 grams IIRC.
>
> Yrs,
> d