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Subject:Re: When was the last time you re-packed your CV joints?
From:Dan N
Date:Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:18:15 -0700

I had my mechanic replace the boots and repack the grease last month at
222K miles. Before that it was in 2015 at 199K miles, tintop Syncro. So 23K
miles in 6 years.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 6:49 AM Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was going through some shelves in my garage this morning and came across
> a container of the CV lube that Chris sells/sold at T3techniques. It's
> called CV-2, a stinky muddy-looking heavy grease. It got me wondering when
> was the last time I packed my axle joints because I used this stuff. I
> looked it up in my log, the date was 2013, almost 60,000 miles ago.
>
> This seems like a long time compared to what I had previously been used to.
> Thoughts and experiences?
>
> Now that I have stated this publicly, I realize that the CV joints are not
> long for this world. But I had to ask.
>
> Jim
>