Re: CV JOINT

[brett@kodak.com (Brett VanSprewenburg)]

> 
>   I went through a few of these $100 rebuilds half shafts on my last
> scirocco. They didn't seem to last too long, maybe 2 years(30,000
> miles).Not too impressive. Supposedly the reason they don't last as long is
> that when they rebuild the joints, they remove some of the metal, and
> simply go to slightly larger ball bearings. While this doesn't sound
> horrible by itself, apparently, the stock ones are hardened somehow, and
> when they rebuild them, they weaken this, which is why the rebuilds don't
> last as long. This may be 100% wrong, but its what I was told, and my
> rebuilds definitely didn't last that long.
> 
> Brad


This is pretty much what I heard too.  It's not just the ball bearings that
possibly lack the 'hardening', but the cage seats that the ball bearings sit
inside. 

==Brett

--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.