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Originally Posted by Rasta Monsta
Charles, that joint is junk.
And on the issue of injecting grease, while I applaud the creativity, the joints need to be disassembled and cleaned (old grease completely removed) before being repacked with fresh grease. Putting new grease over old grease (often of a different composition), is false economy and will cause your expensive CVs to wear out sooner.
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I disagree. In my kid's 951, the CV's were clicking badly, just one short step from complete toast. By "injecting" new grease into them, he's gotten a couple more years out of them - so far. His car (at the time) probably had 135K on it so I'm guessing they were original parts. He might have 150K on it now and it's still going fine, even with the humongous amount of extra horsepower his car has (around 350-400 RWHP). Not too shabby for maybe $10 of grease - 2 years and 15K+ miles.
Yeah, it would have been a lot better to tear them apart and completely clean and re-do them, but neither he or I was interested investing that much time.
A large part of owning an old Porsche is deciding "how much is enough" in terms of rebuiling/restoring our cars - because there's always a surplus of stuff that's either in imminent danger of breaking or is already broken.
If I win the Lotto tomorrow as I hope, then I can guarantee I'll immediately go entirely through my car and it will soon be new once more.
But absent the Lotto jackpot coming my way, then life will be full of compromises. Unless it's absolutely mission-critical (like say tires or brakes) then I'll probably continue on using the cheapest workable solution - even if it isn't the "proper" solution
If you can get a couple extra years or more out of CV's by re-greasing them, so be it. And then if they break, I can shell out the $130 for rebuilt ones (which actually are rather cheap) ...
1986 Porsche 944 CV Half Shaft/Axle Shaft | O'Reilly Auto Parts
I will have to add one qualification, and that is if you're tracking your car, all bets are off, because then the definition of "mission-critical" can change a fair bit.
But otherwise, I'm looking at best bang for the buck...
