Re: CV JOINT

[scirocco.gtx@juno.com (Mark A Peele)]

I've never been able to afford new half shafts.

I agree that new ones will last much longer, but I've certainly gotten
more than 30,000 miles out of the reconditioned ones.

I hope to get new ones when I put the new powerplant in the '82.

Mark . . .   (THINK VW) keep the non-VW posts to yourself!
Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
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From: brett@kodak.com (Brett VanSprewenburg)
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: CV JOINT
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:39:34 -0500
Message-ID: <199811171439.JAA21188@kaos.kodak.com>


> 
>   I went through a few of these $100 rebuilds half shafts on my last
> scirocco. They didn't seem to last too long, maybe 2 years(30,000
> miles).Not too impressive. Supposedly the reason they don't last as
long is
> that when they rebuild the joints, they remove some of the metal, and
> simply go to slightly larger ball bearings. While this doesn't sound
> horrible by itself, apparently, the stock ones are hardened somehow,
and
> when they rebuild them, they weaken this, which is why the rebuilds
don't
> last as long. This may be 100% wrong, but its what I was told, and my
> rebuilds definitely didn't last that long.
> 
> Brad


This is pretty much what I heard too.  It's not just the ball bearings
that
possibly lack the 'hardening', but the cage seats that the ball bearings
sit
inside. 

==Brett

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