axle/cv replacement refresher

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

Ummm no need tyo remove the 15mm nut and bolt and removing the hub from the ba;; joint.
Just turn the steering wheel to EOT and the ineer CV will slip loose and the outer just slide out. 45 minutes each side.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Carroll [mailto:vr612valve@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 5, 2006 05:25 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: axle/cv replacement refresher
>
> You can save if you can either: a.) buy both outer and inner (w/grease and boots) c/v's and use your exsisting axle to hook up the newsies. Note: there is a small circlip inside the joints that sort of hold the axle to the joint-now it is buried in all that delicious grease so I'm not sure if you'd want to try it on your own; by yourself. Don't buy the wrong joints/boots or else your SOL. Or you can b.) get everything above and just take it to a tech to install for a 12pack. It simple knowledge for someone like that, but all it takes is experience. 
> 
> Disconnect the control arm at the ball joint/hub bolt (but keep ball joint on the c.arm) from the steering knuckle, and you will be able to pull that (hub) assembly away from the chassis (after a bit of rubber hammering the control arm downward) with just enough room to slide the axle outta dere. Make since? heheh
>
>Rick Kellner <rfkellner@snet.net> wrote:
> Napa has rebuilt drive axles for my 91 Jetta for $58 each. The cost of
>a new CV and boot is more than that.
>Rick.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Brown [mailto:sharpshooter33@adelphia.net] 
>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:43 PM
>To: scirocco scirocco
>Subject: axle/cv replacement refresher
>
>Ok the 86 Jetta VolksWeenie is telling me it wants it's CV joints
>replaced. CLACK CLACK when I turn the wheel and try to accelerate. Now
>it's starting to pull almost like a flat tire when driving at speed.
>
>Anyway I just looked over the Tech section and I seem to remember isn't
>there an easy way to pull these? 
>
>Remove axle nut, remove rear what are they 12pt nuts on tranny axle
>connection. turn wheel enough to remove? Somewhere I thought I remember
>this. Also it's cheaper and easier to replace complete axle rather than
>CV rebuild?
>
>Looks like VolksWeenie has again taken away my days off where I could be
>working on my rocco with maintanence work on the daily dollar...I mean
>daily driver.
>
>
>David
>86 16v turbo rocc
>86 16v rocc needing facual repairs
>84 8v wolf rocc orgain donor
>86 8v Jetta GLI - $$$ and time sucker
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