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Subject:Re: Cleaning CV
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:51:25 -0700

yup, rolling on a good flat will show any deviation.

well, that's what the bishop said to the actress anyway :)

alistair

On 2013-04-22, at 7:45 PM, neil n wrote:

> I was shoving my spare axles around just today trying to find a
> voltage stabilizer I dropped on to the floor.   ;)
> 
> If one cleaned up their spare axles really well, would rolling them on
> a known to to be true flat surface do much to help determine if
> they're straight?
> 
> Would be an obvious shame to install new or good used CV's onto a bent axle.
> 
> Neil.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> take your spare cv and axle unit and clean it up and store complete assembly in a long plastic bag. Really nice to swap in an entire axle.
> 
> -- 
> Neil n
> 
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> 
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> 
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