>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