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On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:47, Mark Fuhriman wrote: > > Ditto that. Soon after I got my '69 three years ago, I noticed an > occasional click-click. Especially going uphill. The axels had no > "up/down" or "side/side" play. So I moved the axles axially in/out several > times. This made the clicking go away for a couple of years. When the > clicking returned again recently, I did the same thing with the axles, and > the clicking went away again. > Another trick to get more miles out of your CV joints. Flip the axles end for end. Since the CV's are the same on both ends of the axle shaft, they are now rotating in the opposite direction and putting the thrust on a new spot. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org