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Sodo Samba Member
Joined: July 06, 2007 Posts: 9603 Location: Western WA
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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hmmm Dave that's a lotta double negatives. Let me try to clarify.
Clean grease in your CVs is like clean underwear every day for days.
Needle greasing is like day4 into a long trip, sneaking the wife's facial wipes and freshening up "the region", but running the same days-old underwear. It feels pretty good and it does help (a lot). Vanagon drivers have been known to put down some miles like that. But it's never as good as a shower.
Perhaps this is TMI...but it does clarify, am I right? _________________
'90 Westy EJ25, 2Peloquins, 3knobs, pressure-oiled GT mainshaft, filtered, cooled gearbox
'87 Tintop w 47k 53k, '12 SmallCar EJ25, cooled filtered gearbox
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Wildthings Samba Member
Joined: March 13, 2005 Posts: 50334
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:56 am Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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If there is one thing that I have learned about maintenance it is that easy stuff works better than hard stuff. I can add cooling conditioner to all my old rigs in a few minutes once a year, whereas there is no way I am apt to drain, flush, and replace the coolant in each one every couple of years. The same way with needle greasing CV's, fifteen minutes a year to needle grease 4 joints is far more apt to get done than pulling the axles and going through the nasty cleaning routine annually.
At the time I first got my '91 Multi my wife was driving over a hundred miles a day most days, somethings twice that. I could barely get her to let me have it long enough to change the oil once a year, twice was trying to pull hen's teeth. The options were more along the line of trading in the Vanagon for something that didn't needed excessive maintenance like a Honda, or to come up with expedient ways to keep it going, and using a grease needle to grease the CV's was easy and proved to be 100% successful. |
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Sodo Samba Member
Joined: July 06, 2007 Posts: 9603 Location: Western WA
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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Yes easy has benefits. Plus in doing so, you went under the car and put an eye to your CV boots. Probably MOST CV failures are CV boots broken, full of road sand. _________________
'90 Westy EJ25, 2Peloquins, 3knobs, pressure-oiled GT mainshaft, filtered, cooled gearbox
'87 Tintop w 47k 53k, '12 SmallCar EJ25, cooled filtered gearbox
....KTMs, GasGas, SPOT mtb |
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Jake de Villiers Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2007 Posts: 5911 Location: Tsawwassen, BC
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:04 pm Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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Sodo wrote: |
hmmm Dave that's a lotta double negatives. Let me try to clarify.
Clean grease in your CVs is like clean underwear every day for days.
Needle greasing is like day4 into a long trip, sneaking the wife's facial wipes and freshening up "the region", but running the same days-old underwear. It feels pretty good and it does help (a lot). Vanagon drivers have been known to put down some miles like that. But it's never as good as a shower.
Perhaps this is TMI...but it does clarify, am I right? |
Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much information - but pretty clear, yes!
PS We heat water on the stove and bathe with it. _________________ '84 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX
'86 Westy Weekender Poptop/2.5 Subaru/5 Speed Posi/Audi Front Brakes/16 x 7 Mercedes Wheels - answers to 'Dixie'
@jakedevilliersmusic1
http://sites.google.com/site/subyjake/mydixiedarlin%27
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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dobryan Samba Member
Joined: March 24, 2006 Posts: 16501 Location: Brookeville, MD
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bsrad Samba Member
Joined: April 17, 2012 Posts: 256 Location: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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Sodo wrote: |
hmmm Dave that's a lotta double negatives. Let me try to clarify.
Clean grease in your CVs is like clean underwear every day for days.
Needle greasing is like day4 into a long trip, sneaking the wife's facial wipes and freshening up "the region", but running the same days-old underwear. It feels pretty good and it does help (a lot). Vanagon drivers have been known to put down some miles like that. But it's never as good as a shower.
Perhaps this is TMI...but it does clarify, am I right? |
Sodo, that has to be some of the most applicable and technically usable advice I’ve heard in some time. Heading out to install my solar shower. _________________ Bill
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1967 OG Single Cab
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Jake de Villiers Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2007 Posts: 5911 Location: Tsawwassen, BC
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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bsrad wrote: |
Sodo wrote: |
hmmm Dave that's a lotta double negatives. Let me try to clarify.
Clean grease in your CVs is like clean underwear every day for days.
Needle greasing is like day4 into a long trip, sneaking the wife's facial wipes and freshening up "the region", but running the same days-old underwear. It feels pretty good and it does help (a lot). Vanagon drivers have been known to put down some miles like that. But it's never as good as a shower.
Perhaps this is TMI...but it does clarify, am I right? |
Sodo, that has to be some of the most applicable and technically usable advice I’ve heard in some time. Heading out to install my solar shower. |
Awesome!! _________________ '84 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX
'86 Westy Weekender Poptop/2.5 Subaru/5 Speed Posi/Audi Front Brakes/16 x 7 Mercedes Wheels - answers to 'Dixie'
@jakedevilliersmusic1
http://sites.google.com/site/subyjake/mydixiedarlin%27
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
www.thebassspa.com |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22639 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Greasing CV joints |
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You don’t need to clean and repack annually, it’s every 30/50k miles, depending on your terrain. The reason it lasts longer than needles is obvious, it’s the right way to do the job.
You can assess wear on your CVs and “rotate” to extend life
You can deal with damaged hardware at home , and not when you are BFE with a bad CV with no tool in hand. _________________ .ssS! |
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