Re: CV joint mixing

[Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>]

I'm suprised you have had to replace a CV on an A4 so soon.  Mine have
160,000 miles on them and look fine.  (New boots and grease of course)
Did you crack a boot and get gravel in there or something?

	Todd Phenneger
	1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
	1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
	1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
	1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
   *****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 Art4@aol.com wrote:

> I know first hand experience that the CV joints can be rearranged.  I had mine
> out to be replaced over thanksgiving.  When taken to my friends shop, he found
> his listing was wrong and he could only order boots and not the parts, so I
> had to put them back in.  He took them apart reversed the race and bearings
> and then repacked them.  The only new things on them are the boots and the
> grease. He told me this was not a permament fix, which I expected( what else
> with an audi).  So far no problem, but I will be replacing them at the end of
> the month.  God am I not looking forward to taking them off again. I never new
> how technical an A4's supension could be.
>