[tcb] Re: Shocking!
- From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:34:23 -0400
Okay, it's your Daughter's Baja and she'd like it back. She told me one
time. Oh and she wants you to get your busses out of her garage!
LOL
I like the 930 CV joints and boots. You pay for them, trust me, you pay for
them, but they never wear out.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:56 PM, sammie smith
<bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Won't say who, but one of my mechanic friends swears that the Empi swing
> axle split boots are the best quality he can get. I really haven't had any
> real problem with swing axle boots, but my daughters Thing eats CV boots for
> lunch, and my Baja (knock on wood) has never split one; go figure.
>
> --- On *Tue, 5/3/11, Eric Woodall <ericthomaswoodall@xxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Eric Woodall <ericthomaswoodall@xxxxxxx>
>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Shocking!
> To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 2:32 PM
>
>
> Empi is just plain wimpy.
>
> On May 3, 2011, at 2:21 PM, "w.wood"
> <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
> No, on a bay you have to pull off the whole CV (all the bolts), take the
> axle off, remove the clips, the CV Joints.. Get Greasy..
>
> OTOH the Split boots for the swing axles usually are crap too and last
> about two weeks in normal use. In general all the the aftermarket boots are
> just crap, swing or CV. if you can find original VW OE parts, use them not
> the "Empi" stuff for sure.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Julie
> <<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
> julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
>
> I didn't think there was such a thing as replacement CV boots that are
> split for a Bay. If i reuse the joints I will need to clean the sand and
> gravel out and I'm sure I will find a blackened ball bearing or ugly marks
> and those sorts of things and I will frett about them and buy new ones and
> then I will put it all back together and be upset when two years from now my
> boots are ripped again. Ugh! Am I crazy to think that they should last
> more than 50,000 miles?
>
>
>
> On May 3, 2011, at 9:23 AM,
> <http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=theresabuckner@xxxxxxx>
> theresabuckner@xxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=theresabuckner@xxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> Julie Most of the new boots that I have seen do not last . It is
> still easier to use the " replacement boots " split ones than to pull
> CVs buy extra boots On your shocks , if you were a postal employee
> you would find a old shock & remove the rubber gromet & use it terry
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julie
> <<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
> julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> To: tcb < <http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 8:47 am
> Subject: [tcb] Shocking!
>
> My '71 started making a new noise the other day. Upon further investigation I
> see that one of my rear shocks is loose. The nuts and bolts are in place but
> I
> can move it side to side. Shouldn't there be a rubbery bit that holds it more
> securely to the bolt? (Any danger if I keep driving it this way for a few more
> days, I don't think the shock will fall off?)
>
> So if I should just replace the shocks, I should replace the gosh dang blasted
> cv boots. Ugh! They were all replaced like three years ago, the new ones
> all
> fell apart within a year (just bought whatever ones they had at Austin
> VeeDub).
> Then two years ago replaced them with Danish made ones they sell at Wolfsburg
> West and now they are falling apart! And if I put new shocks on they will
> just
> be covered with goopy grease in no time.
>
> It is easy to buy those already put together cheapy cv axles/joints/boot
> things
> and just put them on but people tell me they are junk - use the old cv joints
> if
> they are in good enough shape. But heck at the rate of replacing them every
> couple of years, maybe I should just go ahead and buy a case of them!
>
> What grease should I be filling these joints with? Maybe I use the rubber
> boot
> eating grease?
>
> So what shocks should I get?
>
> Should I buy those complete CV axles thingies? Or are they junk?
>
> What kind of grease should I use in the CVs?
>
> Can I do any care to the outside of the CV boots to help keep them from
> falling
> apart so often? Like caress them with Lubridem or Armor All?
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