[Inner CV leaks]

[Christopher Mende <csmende@bayern.me.iastate.edu>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Jim Buck wrote:

|Christopher Mende wrote:
|> 
|> Sometime within the last week i sprouted an oil leak! I fear it is the
|
|Jim Buck wrote:
|
|This is an outside guess, but carefully inspect your inner cv joint
|boots for a split.  The spraying effect you refer to may be from
|centrifugal force flinging cv grease out.  When its old it can start to
|resemble old oil. 

I did notice and clean greenish grease from one of the inner CV's... a
good number of little splots (cool word, eh?).  How normal is this?? I had
the seals replaced by VW in July, and repacked again in August when I had
the outer CV's replaced... I'm kinda pissed, actually.

~C



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