Itinerant Air-Cooled

Thanks Randy.
8000 miles is a slap in the face. And it's not a picnic-job either.
Bus Depot sells Continental, wonder if they're any better?
http://www.busdepot.com/details.jsp?par ... =251598201
I ordered a couple, we'll see. Gotta be better than torn. It's a shame that German has lost it's immediate quality. Suppliers typically don't care. Manufacturers obviously don't. So the only one that cares is the consumer - US. And the suppliers and mfrs. obviously don't care. It's like the current job market - "don't like it screw you there's the door" with little recourse.
I have a friend that restores old workworking machinery. Some from 1880 still do the job they were built for.
All we can do is chew out our favorite vendors when something fails prematurely and hope they act accordingly. But more of us have to speak up.

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Didya make sure that seam was pointing in the right direction? Just checking. Or do these not have seams - most of you have later busses, and I've fogotten what the setup looks like.

Well ya COULDA klicked on the link!

hambone wrote:Well ya COULDA klicked on the link!

Ah yeah. It all comes back in a rush now from my old '71 Transporter. No problems there. Too often on the earlier vehicles I see that seam sticking straight up. Yecch.

 

Of course BD never ships what is on the website. The new boot is Rein, made in France, German company. Looks to be well made. But the enclosed moly satchet is German. Comes with all new hardware too.
The other boot is showing slight signs of dry rot, but it did at last repack and I didn't worry about it. Should I?

.. and yet the EMPI-branded, off-the-Taiwan-boat CV boots I bought from Bus Boys and installed six years ago are still supple and crack-free with over 45K miles. Yes, I'm sure -- was just looking at them a few weeks ago.

I had my doubts when I used them (as I do with anything EMPI or BugPack), but they've held up beautifully. Wonder what they're made of...

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I still don't see what's so bad about it. I did it a few years ago and was expecting unfathomable anguish based on everyone's posts. I didn't think it was that bad. Of course, at the time I was a mechanical engineering intern used to being up to my waist in old grease/hydraulic oil and who-knows-what-else. Have a roll of paper towels and a bunch of extra plastic grocery bags at the ready and go to town.

I think the grease does wonders for the skin.

I have done it twice, and it was lots of fun. I did make a trick that even Colin acknowledged as noteworthy. Use the grease that comes in the squat peanut sized can. When you are doing one side CV, boot on or off, dis and reassembly, place the bottom CV on the open can. No dirt in the joint, only more grease in the open can. You can call the trick "Sylvester CV stand".

And to add to Sly's trick, y'all might want to try this.................

Tear off a hunk of plastic wrap and place it on the workbench. Then place your CV joint (on the halfshaft) on top of that so the halfshaft is sticking straight up. Plop a big dollop of moly grease down on the CV joint and plastic wrap. Now pull up the edges of the plastic wrap and tape those edges tightly to the halfshaft. You just made a CV joint in a plastic bag kinda thing.

The plastic wrap/bag now allows you to force the grease into the bearing cage with relative ease. And you are not getting stinkin' filthy either. I wouldn't do this job any other way. I keep the plastic/wrap bags on until it's time to reinstall. Any grease left on the plastic wrap is scraped off and added to the joint.

It is much a neater (and, I think more effective) job this way. I'm not saying that you won't get grease on yourself but you probably won't have to burn your clothes either.

I will try the plastic wrap method, it sounds promising. Most of the moly I see comes in tubes, no freakin peanut cans here in the Great Norfwest.

hambone wrote:Most of the moly I see comes in tubes, no freakin peanut cans here in the Great Norfwest.

I think the cat-man is talking about this, which you can get at Autozone.

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hambone wrote:Most of the moly I see comes in tubes, no freakin peanut cans here in the Great Norfwest.

I think the cat-man is talking about this, which you can get at Autozone.

That is it! Same damn size as a CV too.

The can was too small. I forgot to get plastic wrap. So I did it the old fashioned way - gobs of goop like frosting in my gloved hands.
The new boot seems really tough. I think it will last. It was a real pain getting it past the snap ring groove.
One of my least favorite VW jobs but at least it's done for now.

Sly, You've used that Durablend to pack your CV?