Re: Longevity of CVJs in normal use?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchholz, Steven <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>
To: 'qlist' <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 5:58 AM
Subject: Longevity of CVJs in normal use?


>Greetings!
>
>I am contemplating the other things I will be doing to the QTC while I'm
>doing the clutch and started thinking about the CV joints.  In my personal
>experience of a couple dozen of the things I've never had to replace a
>single one ... although I notice a bit of play in the ones on the '85 4kSQ
>at 205k miles ...
>
>I was just wondering what is the typical lifetime of the CVJs, and whether
>the inner or outer style designs last about the same number of miles.
While
>I have the propshaft and half shafts out are there any measurements I can
>take to give an indication of wear?  The QTC has a bit over 100k miles ...
>
>TIA!
>Steve Buchholz
>San Jose, CA (USA)

Hi Steven;

    I pulled the CV joints on my '86 5ktq at 150k km to replace the outer
boots. The outer joints were in excellent shape with no detectable wear or
play.
    I have 254k km on the original joints in my '91 200q with no signs of
problems. These are very heavy joints and they appear to be well engineered
and well built. They should be good for many km if the boots are kept
intact.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  254k km