re
- "get under there after "a while"

for sure ..it's a good idea  to check tightness of the CV joint screws..
like after a thousand miles say.
Can't hurt .....and might prevent a bad thing from happening.
Like it's normal to check them at least once, after a while.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike South" <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: clamps for cv boots, ridged washers for cv bolts

> Thanks, everyone.  I was planning on re-using these bolts because they
> don't
> have many miles on them.  I wonder if the reason Scott has no trouble with
> the boots splitting is that the amount of grease he puts in keeps the
> rubber
> "wet" or "conditioned" or whatever you call it.  The boots I took off were
> a
> couple years old, not used too much (maybe a couple thousand miles tops)
> and
> looked new.  They have been sitting in my garage in Texas heat, but they
> were wrapped in plastic bags since the day I took them off the van a year
> or
> more ago.
>
> I found a nice close-up of schnoor safety washers here:
>
> http://www.schnorr.com/safetywashers.html
>
> I don't think the ones I scavenged had the original shape left, which
> explains to me why I have read 'always replace the washers'.
>
> It makes me wonder what the difference would be when you torque it to spec
> with or without those washers on it, since they are made to provide extra
> binding via their shape.  (For that matter, though, I bet you get
> something
> wildly different depending on how much grease gets on the bolt when you
> put
> it through the hole in the joint.)  Since the washers flatten out over
> time
> it seems to me that you need to get under there after "a while" for some
> definition of while and re-torque to account for the flattening.
>
> Anyway--mostly I just wanted to say thanks everyone for letting me know
> what
> the deal was, I'm leaps ahead of where I was.
>
> mike
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am happy to report that I have just placed my Zetec in my '85 Westy.
>> Not
>> even completely bolted in yet but soooo much better than "hanging on the
>> hoist in the garage" stage I've been at for quite some time.
>>
>> Anyway--the cvs boots I have are the kind where the big end just bolts
>> on.
>>  Anyone have a recommendation for the small end of the boot?  I had to
>> switch axles because I'm also doing the AT->MT conversion on this van and
>> the AT axels are different.  At least one of the 8 boots was on with a
>> zip
>> tie.  I didn't see any clamps specifically for this at my FLAPS so I
>> thought
>> I would ask the list.
>>
>> Also, the place I had do it when I first bought the van apparently didn't
>> put the little washers on the cv bolts (the wide, two-per-bolt,
>> washer-like
>> things were there, however, I'm just talking about the circular ones).  I
>> have only put a couple of bolts in on each side (just enough to determine
>> the left-right placement of the engine in the van), using the washers
>> scavenged from my MT donor van.  I noticed that the washers are
>> specialized,
>> with little diagonal grooves or ridges on them, which makes me wonder if
>> they are important, and what the purpose of those grooves are.
>>
>> Anyone know?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> mike
>>