In a message dated 98-03-27 11:48:33 EST, hbandcmills@TNTECH.CAMPUS.MCI.NET
writes:

<< Now I drive a '78 Westy that out of 4 CV joints has 1/2 of a boot. None of
the others are covered. It was like this when I got the van and I decided once
I felt the same tremor that I wouldn't try to the save these CV's with grease
and boots - I'd see how long the would last in the elements....Have been on
dirt roads and forded a couple of creeks where nothing got wet inside but I am
sure the CV's did! >>

Friend--

See a doctor. You are nuts.

During college I had no $$$. In order to pay for rent/food, I HAD to leave two
CV's open. It sucked. I drove around for a year with butt-pucker praying they
wouldn't give out.

In the hopes they would last, I litterally hosed them out from time to time
and repacked with moly grease. I prayed for my CV's, but Jesus and all the
little lambs and harp-playing angels couldn't save my CV's. Eventually one let
go on I-95 near Mechanicsburg, VA (ironic). I was dead in the water, and
missed an important family gathering.

If your life is so orderly that you must tempt fate, try running between
raindrops. Give time to charitable causes. Being stuck in the middle of no-
where with expensive broken parts THAT YOU COULD HAVE FIXED, sucks.

gmbulley
cary, nc