At 04:58 AM 2/28/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Just spent the day replacing a half shaft on my wife's VW RABBITT!!!!!
>It is nowhere as much fun as working on my MG!!!!My gripe is WHY don't
>these car repair manuals in this case a Haynes tell you what tools you
>need?All they say is "remove hub nut"I had to run all over time finding
>a 30 MM socket.....next remove 6 bolts holding inner CV joint to
>trans...I had to run all over town looking for a 8 MM 12 point star
>wrench of course I couldn't see the bolts good enough to tell what they
>were!It would have saved me a lot of time and frustration to know what
>special tools are needed.All of us don't have complete tool warehouses
>and should be able to do the job with common tools I don't have to buy
>anything special to work on my B Is this the Germans getting back at me
>because I have the nerve to park a BRITISH car next to the VW?Thanks for
>letting me vent!
>Pat
>
>Try to find a copy of How to Keep your Volkswagen Rabbit Alive- A manual
for the complete idiot. I bought a 75 Rabbit new and put over 250,000 miles
on it and this book helped me immensely. Plus the atrwork in the book is
priceless. I sold the car years ago, but the book is still with me. By the
way , how did we get ont VWs anyway? Anybody know where a good VW pickup
could be found cheap?
Don Walton in NC
B's in pieces
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