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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: CV-joint core dump requested...
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 03:48:32 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov16.013144.282@dbased.nuo.dec.com>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, dobosz_m@wfooff.enet.dec.com (Mike Dobosz) says:
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- >
- >I'll be replacing a CV joint on my '85 VW Quantum next weekend. I've never
- >done this job before, but I'm looking forward to trying it.
-
- >So perhaps we can look at this as an opportunity to pad the CV-joint section
- >of the rec.autos.vw FAQ. Post to your heart's content, telling of your
- >trials, tribulations and accomplishments in the area of CV joint
- >replacement. I'm pretty sure that the maintainer of the FAQ will welcome
- >the information. I'm _certain_ that I will. Tools, techniques,
- >occurrences of Murphy's Law...all are welcomed.
- >
- >Thanks in advance...
- > Mike
-
- the only real advice i know of is if you rebuild the one you have..i have
- taken apart about 10 of them(ok..only 6, but some more than once, for whatever
- reasons, not failure on any of them, mostly tranny stuff!..at any rate..onward!)
- just be real careful to make sure that the join rotates(like it would to
- absorb a bump!) loosely before you put it back on..cuz, if you do it just wrong,
- it'll go together, but will not rotate right....i dunno what that'd do to your
- drive train..but i know it would not help it(i always managed to catch that
- before i put them back...but..for the less exerienced with CV joints..this is
- NOT how they act when they are taken apart and put back together!!!..they
- should still feel loose, and freely rotate!)
- good luck!
- DREW
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