From: Horrocks, Aaron (ACHb@pge.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 07:17:16 PDT
Well, after rebuilding everything on my jeep, I still had the transmission
leaking, and the rear axel. I had already replaced the seals, and thought
maybe something was wrong with the newer seals. taking the yoke off the
tranny (well, transfer case, the yoke to the front axel) I found the
replacement seal was perfect, but years of wear and tear had put a very
small grove into the metal that the seal rubbed up against. I got an NOS
yoke, replaced it, and it completely stopped that leak.
Just this weekend I removed the yoke to the rear axel to find the same
problem to a lesser degree - the part where the seal meets metal wore a
grove ad the oil is leaking out of it!
So, it may not be the seal - but what the seal meets up with!
Later,
Aaron Horrocks
1952 M38A1
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Jankowiak [mailto:eccm@swbell.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 9:17 PM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: [MV] M35 axle leaking again!
well here we are 260 miles later, and it looks like the same symptom.
I did replace the cork, used red silicon, even squirted some inside after
putting the seal and inner nut in, and then following that with the
lockwasher and outer nut.
Here's what i have done with the truck:
100 miles around town, just for fun. speed from 0 to 55
80 miles to a friend's farm 50 mph
half a mile or so, driving 20 mph around a pasture in low 6x6, to give
friends' kids a ride
80 miles home at night, 50 mph.
The leak became evident (by seeing the inside of the wheel get wetted)
during the last 80 miles. It was dry before I left the farm. I noticed the
leak the next day when it was light outside.
I can only say that I put the new seal in the same way the old one came out;
the side with the concentric ribs went towards the bearing, and the side
with the flat rubber 9with slightly radial marks)
went towards the outside.
There's images at
'http://208.190.133.201/deuce_and_a_half/m35_axle_seals.html' showing how it
came apart. Put it back the same way.
I sure am frustrated!
Any ideas where I went wrong?
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