Repacking the CV axles
12-07-2014, 05:45 AM
#71
The reason to be sure to put the rollers (bearings) back where they were is so you mate the bearing with the race it was seated with. It is not good to mismatch used bearings as they set a pattern in their race.
12-07-2014, 05:51 AM
#72
When you are ready just send me a PM I will be happy to help you, Thank you 
04-24-2018, 03:37 AM
#73
In case anyone is still interested, with OEM grease on about 80K miles, there was pitting, basically damage, scuffed up pitting.
swapped cv cup from left to right, packed with redline cv grease. at 200K miles (120K miles on the redline grease) there was NO pitting. smooth surface all along. There was indentation however. not visible to the eye, but if you ran your finger along that contact area, you could feel your finger indent where the bearings were.
So, from this experience, Redline CV grease > OEM CV grease. based on the pitting compared to NO pitting, OEM grease is crap.
i repacked with Mobil 1 universal joint grease. THINK as heck.
i attribute the wear results to the thickness difference of the greases, and am comfortable with the mobil 1 grease.
on a side note, the last mechanic to pack this cv joint did NOT put the rollers back to the original bearings. so far, no issues.
swapped cv cup from left to right, packed with redline cv grease. at 200K miles (120K miles on the redline grease) there was NO pitting. smooth surface all along. There was indentation however. not visible to the eye, but if you ran your finger along that contact area, you could feel your finger indent where the bearings were.
So, from this experience, Redline CV grease > OEM CV grease. based on the pitting compared to NO pitting, OEM grease is crap.
i repacked with Mobil 1 universal joint grease. THINK as heck.
i attribute the wear results to the thickness difference of the greases, and am comfortable with the mobil 1 grease.
on a side note, the last mechanic to pack this cv joint did NOT put the rollers back to the original bearings. so far, no issues.
I too wonder if the S2K CV pitting issues are a problem with some batches of their factory grease, or perhaps aging, contamination or it was just too light for heavy footed driving.
04-30-2018, 01:21 PM
#74
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This thread has been sitting around a for a while now, but still relevant. I'm curious, do you still have the S2K and are the axles still going well on regular synthetic CV grease ?
I too wonder if the S2K CV pitting issues are a problem with some batches of their factory grease, or perhaps aging, contamination or it was just too light for heavy footed driving.
I too wonder if the S2K CV pitting issues are a problem with some batches of their factory grease, or perhaps aging, contamination or it was just too light for heavy footed driving.
really, if you compare the oem grease to redline or mobil 1 grease, you will see that the oem grease was very thin in comparison, and is PROVEN to always have pitting issues.
redline grease proved that it can protect against pitting at 120k miles of use.
i'm confident the mobil 1 grease, based on how much thicker it was than oem, can also prevent pitting issues.
03-09-2021, 11:41 PM
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I know is been years by now but is a good thing to know you’re feedback since I’m going to repack my Cv joints thanks in advance
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