(If I may broaden this CV discussion slightly)

My van has an aircooled DK trans. I’m getting a occasional m’étais *clunk*
sound from back there.

I bought two rebuilt CV axles from a shop here in montréal, and left my
originals (cores) with the guy.
The aircooled CV axles are slightly shorter than later I’ve learned. Has
anyone ever heard s complaint about s slightly too long CV axle causing a
clunk?

(When the van is on a lift and I try to move the CV axle left sand right
 by hand , it doesn’t have much travel)  at best 1/4”

Another vanagon, on the adjacent lift, has easily 1/2” to 5/8” travel left
and right.
(When I grip it with my hand and move it left and right.)
I’m considering hunting down some aircooled length axles to try and solve
this issue)

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:02 PM Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> CV joint boots are like so many other parts these days. The quality just
> is not there and often critical design details are missed. For the Rockford
> boots many of us recently started using it think the main problem is that
> they are too stiff or beefy for our application. This companies products
> are often used by the front axle-reman drive shaft industry. There are
> different designs for the 100mm 6 bolt flange. Most often I see these on
> the inners of front drive vehicles where they operate mostly in a straight
> line For FWD the other really need to articulate just like on a Syncro. For
> now I'll be going back to the REIN BKN0004R.
>
> As for carrying a spare drive axle, for automatics keep in mind the left
> and right axles are different lengths. For all the single points of failure
> that leave you on the roadside the CV joints are amongst the last part I
> would carry. Many Vanagons are still running on the originals.
>
> Dennis
>