Simply turning the shafts inside out will not place the wear on the opposite
sides of the grooves. For a manual transmission swap left and right. For an
automatic you have to move the joints from one shaft to the other or turn
them around (install backwards on each shaft. Personally it is not worth the
effort. Although this will take cars of the balls getting stuck in the
groove edges, ( the clicking), grooves on both sides means excessive play.
Especially on Syncros this paly can add up to some interesting effects even
leading up to unexplained groans and other weird noises.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Arnott
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:48 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Flipping Axles to Maximize CV Joint Wear

I've just spent the past hour digging through the archives. No joy.
(This is why changing the Subject is important when the subject
changes....)

A few years ago, someone (I think Dennis Haynes) wrote an excellent
explanation of how and why to flip one's halfshafts to maximize CV joint
wear. The explanation labelled the joints A, B & C, D. I've tried every
combination of CV, joint, axle A, B, C & D to find it and I'm drawing a
blank.

Did anyone bookmark it? If so, could you send the link along. (And maybe we
might add it to the Vanagonauts data?)

Thanks,

Jim