CV joints, how much is enough?

Rule of thumb: If you can take your CVs apart, and then put them back together by hand, they need to be replaced. Feel a new CV, they are really tight, they are put together by machine. When you can do it by hand it means there is a lot of slop in them.

[Racelook]

Just put the CV's as full with grease as you can. And yes if your turn over the several pieces of the cv to the right way, you can build them up by hand.

WIebrand

p.s. I talk about cv-joints of an 1303 axle.

[Bruce2]

Originally Posted by vwdevotee

Rule of thumb: If you can take your CVs apart, and then put them back together by hand, they need to be replaced.

That's total crap. Sloppy CV joints will live hundreds of thousands of miles just fine.

[Wally]

Originally Posted by Bruce2

That's total crap. Sloppy CV joints will live hundreds of thousands of miles just fine.

behind a 44 or 50 hp engine...

[alt+f4]

When you do put the CVs back together! The slots make a X make sure they dont make //....It will blow shortly if parralell.