From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 15:45:46 PDT
thay some one mak's a speedy sleave to cover the worn part of the yoke
that shood be cheeper than the nrew or used yoke would be
i thinkj thay get heated and droped over the yoke befor the yoke heats or
the sleave cools
i think thay haet the sleave in hot oil
and the yoke in the freazer mite help too
----- Original Message -----
From: "Horrocks, Aaron" <ACHb@pge.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M35 axle leaking again!
> 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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