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Re: lychee and cv boots



Ewan Hopkins wrote:
> 
> I'd be very surprised if that was the case as the gear oil would allow too much slop in the joint.  I replaced a CV joint that had been run like that for a while and it was well screwed.
> 
> Ewan Hopkins
> 
> >>> Pei-Chung Ting <chungsteroonie@yahoo.com> 27/10/99 01:01:02 >>>
> 
>   Talked to my mechanic, and he
> said that running with gear oil in the CV boot is a
> hip way of doing things. . . lubricates better than CV
> grease, but no boot on the planet can withstand that
> kind of torture for very long.

Depends on when you catch it. Educated guess, judgment call on whether
you clean & repack or just replace the CV since your there anyway.

Tranny fluid does nothing good for a CV other than its better than
completely dry.

TBerk
Last time ND did it, next tim it's all me.

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