EMZ wrote:
>
>    Have you been driving this without the drive axle? The front
> wheel bearings are suppose to fall apart like that?.

What happened to mine is that the outer CV joint cratered.  This
shattered the cage and allowed me to easily leave the outer CV race in
the steering knuckle while I removed the shaft to make the van
drive-able.

>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, John Kehely wrote:
> >
> > Am I likely to do harm by driving with that shaft missing.
> > Is it better to remove the other front shaft until I find a replacement.

I would recommend just removing the driveshaft.  This is much easier
than disassembling your other good? CV joint.  As Eric mentioned, you
cannot just remove the entire CV joint and still drive the vehicle.  Be
sure to mark the connections so you can re-assemble the shaft in the
same orientation.  These can be troublesome.  Check the archives.

JN