[tcb] Re: Shocking!
- From: kelly dosch <kellydosch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:28:28 -0700 (PDT)
Stool Pigeon!
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From: w.wood <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, May 3, 2011 3:34:23 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Shocking!
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> 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 <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, 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 <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>To: tcb <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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