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On 29 Feb 2004 at 18:10, Daniel Baum wrote: > My Type 3 weekend was a bit of a nightmare frankly. > > I finally got around to putting the driveshafts back in. I will _never_ > do this again. Although it went fairly straighforwardly, it is such a > horrible job that next time it needs doing I will pay someone else to do > it. Why would anyone want to do this for a living? Gee, I don't find it all that difficult. > I still cannot believe the amount of revolting sticky grease you have to > put on them. > Who was it who said that he'd never seen black CV joint grease? Yes, there's a lot of it and it should be black from the molybdenum disulfide in it. I hope you didn't pack the boots FULL, or the boots may break, make a mess, and you'll get to do this all over again. > But the biggest nightmare was putting them in. Trying to line up the > first bolt with the hole while hanging on to it with greasy hands and > desparately trying not to drop the whole thing ito the dirt. And then > torquing the bolts and trying to manoever my large torque wrench in the > poky space. For those of you who've never tried it, access to the CV > joints in an automatic is BAD. Rather than turn the hub so I could get > the wrench in the bolt, get up each time, put on the handbrake and then > get under and torque each one individually, I held onto the hub for dear > life with one hand and my knees, and torqued the bolts with my other > hand. Yes, it's a bit trying getting the first bolt started in each flange, but then I just go ahead and install all of them hand tight, and then get a friend to sit in the car and depress the brake pedal while I torque them. That way you can torque, release, rotate, repeat.... > Also yesterday, I realised (with the help of a friend who turned up > unexpectedly) that my engine is only running on three cylinders. So I've > got something to do next weekend after all... That's odd. Do you think it's been this way all along? Glad to hear that you won't be bored. ;-) -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org