I agree Bill. If assembled wrong it's frozen, from what I can tell there are
only two options. Correct and working and frozen. If you assemble the
bearings and the outer ring through the backside it will lock up.

 I'm guessing there is just a flaw in the low quality unit since this was a
replacement that had the click.

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Bill Collins
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:01 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: need input on confusing CV joints...

>Sometimes CV joints get assembled improperly.  Look at the right up on
>Tom Carrington's web page and the pictures.  He explains in detail how
>to reassemble them correctly and incorrectly.    It is not unheard of to
>find that a joint was assembled incorrectly when they are rebuilt.
>This could be the case.  So perhaps you can reassemble it and have a
>good spare axle.

I thought an incorrectly assembled joints is completely locked up and can't
even be installed on the van.

The only joints I have ever had fail while the boots were intact were on
cheap FLAPS re-built axles.

Bill