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• Vanagon -Subaru SVX owners!
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:41:55 -0800
  ...I understand that the SVX will blow out CV joints quite easily. Perhaps this damper will help with this issue.It may act as...
• Re: CV bolts and DPO mechanics
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:03:03 -0500
  ...If they were all loose, surely I would have heard the horrible rattling noise of a loose CV joint. Instead, that ONE tight bolt...
• Re: CV joint question and success!
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:04:15 -0400
  ...Likely easy for you folks but I was feeling pretty uncertain taking it on alone. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> So, what direction for that CV joint groove? > >> >>>> > >> >>>> Eric...
• Re: CV joint reversal?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:29:29 -0700
  ...If you could simply flip the CVs over, that would work, too - but you can't do that, since the joints themselves have an...
• Fwd: Can_CV_Joint_Grease_be_Removed_from_Upholstery
  Historical mailing list - Helmut Blong
  Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:42:10 -0400
  ...Can_CV_Joint_Grease_be_Removed_from_Upholstery To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Cary, Get a can of Brake Clean and spray it on...
• Re: Regreasing my CV's. Flip driveshafts on reinstall good idea?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:48:37 -0700
  ...CV joints before starting disassembly (doh!) * On reassembly it helped to push the CV boot to put some pressure on the CV joint. This...
• Re: CV Experts, please help...
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:09:43 -0700
  > Hi, > > Yesterday I attempted my first effort ever at > servicing my CV joints. The van (87 syncro) had > parked for a year while I...
• CV Joints knocking?
  Historical mailing list - Mary Beth and Chris Geiser
  Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:34:44 -0600
  ...My first guess is a CV joint. If you have other idea's, I'd like to hear them. If it is the CV...
• Re: Click, Click, Click
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:09:04 -0500
  ...We had a CV joint physically break on our Saab 900. We had the click, click, click in turns and then after a while...
• Thing trannies...
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:09:09 -0400 (EDT)
  ...A bug tranny will fit the thing assuming you change the CV joint cups from the thing tranny to the bug tranny. BTW...little...
• Re: Book time for CV Joint work?
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:34:17 -0700
  ...Book time for CV Joint work? I think I like Dennis' rates better than Jeffrey's.... :D
• Lobro/GKN CV-Boot ONLY kit?
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Alfonso
  Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:07:16 -0700
  ...Don't need the joint itself. I've already got four Lobro joints on the shelf in my garage. See, this weekend I fixed...
• CV Injection Procedure??
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Apr 1995 12:02:09 +0100
  Could somebody who's re-greased their CV joints via the big needle-grease gun method give a detailed rundown of this procedure? And...
• Re: CV Joint separation from axle shaft; Lessons Learned.
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:12:10 EST
  ...Hanlon" <hanran@EARTHLINK.NET> writes: >Listees, > >In the process of replacing a torn CV joint boot, I have removed the >half shaft from the...
• Done: Re: (rear) cv joint
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:11:11 -0500
  CV joints are DONE (last night). Thanks to everybody who helped out. I'm glad to be back on the road again. -Wes Wesley...
• Re: CV Joint Dog Bone Question Years
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:54:32 -0500
  ...thanks Jonce >Are you asking about CV joints, or CV axles, or the combined "dog >bone"? I don't know about the earlier cars...
• Re: CV axel repair
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:46:47 -0700
  ...I type in CV or CV joint or CV axel > and I get nothing.Can someone please tell me of a couple of sites...
• Re: CV joints
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:35:28 -0800
  ...success with it!) but as a CV newbie, It's been a LONG time since did CV joints, it I wasn't on a...
• Looking for good rear CV shaft for manual trans
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Wed, 1 May 2013 17:20:25 -0400
  ...I really just need a good shaft with no CV joints on it as I am going to be putting new ones on for...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Steven Shelton
  Mon, 5 May 2014 08:29:57 -0400
  I had just finished disassembling and greasing my CV joints when I sat down at my computer and read about "clocking." Never heard of...
• Re: CV joint maintenance/replacement question.
  Historical mailing list - Roman Haag
  Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:01:00 -0400
  ...Also, why just the one side? If the noise is from the CV joints that will usually change with load. I would also check...
• Re: Dished Washer With New CV Joints?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:56:25 -0600
  ...of the old bolts out and the axle is off, new CV joints ready to go on...kit has a dished washer, and I...
• CV Joint Removal (OK, we go back to the topic)
  Historical mailing list - H Steven Dolan
  Thu, 11 Aug 1994 10:24:36 -0700 (PDT)
  ...If you are considering doing your CV joints, get one of the 6mm allen sockets or 12-point drives and one of those hand...
• Re: Fw: Heeeellllppp!!! (Auto trans/final drive)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 May 1999 02:47:28 EDT
  ...It sounds like a CV-Joint had broken, or the bolts that secure the CV joint to the drive flange fell/stripped out. >> any...
• Rounded CV joint bolts
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Fahrney
  Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:19:46 -0700
  So I decided it was time to repack the CV joints and replace the torn boots. Got under the beast with a jack and...
• 45Nm a bit much for CV joints?
  Historical mailing list - Matthias Kuster
  Wed, 9 May 2007 20:35:09 -0700
  ...I just broke a bolt off the CV joint while trying to tighten it according to Bentley (and Haynes) it's 45Nm. The broken...
• Re: Kombi? HA!
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Jul 94 13:28:09 -0600
  Aunt Devi is the one that keeps getting into the CV joints, right?
• Re: Question on CV joints
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:48:34 -0400
  Actually what is causing the tranny oil leak is a missing or damaged sealing CAP which mounts in the center of the CV flange...
• Re: CV joints...condition?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:27:45 -0500
  ...On 11/22/08, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote: > Finally dove into the task of checking, servicing and possibly replacing the > CV joints...
• Re: clunking from CV????
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:17:43 -0500
  CV joints on any vehicle can clunk when worn (or if poorly installed or bad to begin with as two were on a vehicle...
• Re: CV joint noise problem and simple greasing fix
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:11:53 -0500
  ...CV joint noise problem and simple greasing fix Somebody on the list suggested going to a FLAPS and buying the injector needle made on...
• Re: 2 matters, oil pressure, and axle
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:30:21 -0500
  ...The boot as you call it is the boot, and the joint is the CV joint. If the boot rubber is torn, and nowadays...
• Re: CV Joint Dog Bone Question Years
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:15:38 -0500
  ...This is why the axle shaft is different even though the CV joint is the same. Also the shaft differs for an auto trans...
• Re: CV boots again.
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli3
  Sun, 16 Jul 2023 06:20:29 -0400
  ...The ones I have now when I installed new LOBRO CV joints are GNK if my memory serves me well. You need to look...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:02:10 -0700
  ...The synthetic grease won't dry out, and the moly withstands the pressure in a CV joint. There have been discussions on the list...
• CV joint repair?
  Historical mailing list - Wil Haslup
  Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:40:19 -0400
  ...That's about $10 in CV joint grease compared to the $120-140 I've priced the new joint at. (Of course having it...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:04:37 -0400
  ...A loose set of bolts will cause grease to splatter.This,before the joint actually comes dangerously loose.
• Re: CV removal tips?
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Sat, 20 May 2006 19:29:16 -0700
  ...but I'll bet it's more than what you get when you have to pound the cv joint off. Rob becida@comcast.net
• Re: CV advice needed
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:26:22 -0800
  Tim Smith wrote: > > >into the CV joints. The grease comes in a tooth paste type plastic tube > >to which a stiff 4 or 5...
• Re: Syncro-Tech. front axle Question
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Mon, 14 Oct 1996 19:37:14 -0400
  > When installing the outer front CV joint into the wheel > hub Bentley wants the splines to be lock compounded to the > hub! Bentley manual...
• Re: CV joints
  Historical mailing list - Arthur H. Walker
  Mon, 1 May 1995 17:13:11 -0700
  it's a popular misconception that if you reverse the orientation of a drive axle on a CV shaft, the bearings will be loaded...
• CV boot quality
  Historical mailing list - Jake Beaulieu
  Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:06:43 -0800
  I am replacing the worn CV joints on my 82 air cooled Westy. The boots seem to be in pretty good shape, but they...
• Re: Removing CV joints.
  Historical mailing list - Puzerewski
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:21:21 -0400
  ...Monday, September 18, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: [VANAGON] Removing CV joints. > Greetings and Salutations; > It is with a bit of trepidation that I...
• Re: If it's not broken don't fix it? Odometer & CV joints
  Historical mailing list - Wes V
  Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:55:26 -0500
  ...Color code the inside CV joints with spray paint before disassembly. Just unbolt them (without dropping them on your face) re-grease & bolt back...
• Re: NVC Re: Stevens Creek Volkswagen in Santa Clara
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:45:05 -0800
  ...You don't seem to understand that they simply said VW's powertrain warranty never covers CV joints. I pointed this out several times...
• Re: CV joint raceway opinion
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:58:28 -0500
  ...Inspected the outer CV joint and found that it has one pit mark on > one of the races. No other pits. There is no...
• Re: 90 Westy synchro front wheel noise
  Historical mailing list - Tyrone & Marilyn Greene
  Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:57:53 -0400
  ...What I found it to be was the front right outer CV joint. That was the good news. Also the good news is that...
• CV Joint Replacement
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:22:31 -0600
  Would someone please point me to any site that describes how to change out a CV. Had a failure of one today. Have looked...
• looking for destroyed front out CV joint
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:43:20 -0800
  ...I am looking for the stub portion of a Syncro front outer CV. I don't need anything else. Feel free to Pmail me...
• Re: CV star head bolts
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:45:02 -0500
  ...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Bill MacLachlan wrote: > can someone please confirm the bit for the star headed bolts on cv > joints? > is it...
• Re: Cheapo CV Boot repair(emergency only)
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:48:41 -0700
  ...I have also kept CV joints alive for years and years.. after a boot was shot .. by getting very sticky, very penetrating, motorcycle spray...
• Re: Which way is right way for CV joints?
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:13:49 -0600
  ...My Westy has been a guinea pig for VWG for both Chinese >CV Joints and CV Boots/Hdw from a particular manufacturer (that happens...
• Re: CV joint socket size?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:33:32 -0700
  ...CV joint socket size? >> >> My gkn lobro CV joints arrived today yay! One question do I use the grease >> they came with or upgrade...
• Shearing CV Axles constantly... What to do next?
  Historical mailing list - Kurt Camealy
  Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:12:57 -0400
  ...EMPI CV joints, but do they even fit properly? Also is it the shaft that is weakly made, or are the CV joints causing...
• Re: CV Joints
  Historical mailing list - Dick Wong
  Sun, 27 Apr 2014 23:55:40 -0700
  ...CV Joints Thanks for the tip Ed! It makes sense to me that a semi synthetic grease with molybdenum would last at least as...
• HD Syncro Front Axles now available
  Historical mailing list - John Wessels
  Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:58:55 EDT
  Hello Volks, I now have the heavy duty 930(108mm) inner and 16" (98mm) outer CV joint axles available. Custom axles are used that...
• Re: CV joint socket size?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Philbrick
  Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:36:50 -0500
  ...10 PM, ralph meyermann <ralphmeyermann@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all! My cv joints should be here today or tomorrow and I forgot to get...
• Re: Grinding While cornering, now cv joints,
  Historical mailing list - John Jensen
  Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:28:05 -0400
  I changed my cv joints last year because of a grinding on cornering. But afterwards I had some problems with my rear brakes and...
• Re: Assessing CV joints?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 8 Nov 2014 07:50:19 -0800
  ...Assessing CV joints? > > Is there an easier way to get an idea of the CV joint's condition without > taking it off the tranny...
• Re: Redline:CV-2 High temp. CV grease
  Historical mailing list - ERIC ZENO
  Tue, 14 Jan 1997 12:19:50 -0500 (EST)
  ...In small letter on the can it states for CV joints. You can get it at Trak Auto stores. Eric Zeno