Date:         Sun, 18 May 2003 20:35:54 -0700
Reply-To:     "Daniel E. Dedrick" <dan_dedrick@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Daniel E. Dedrick" <dan_dedrick@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Syncro Tranny
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi all -

The front drive output seal on my 4WD tranny started
leaking so I replaced it a few months ago. Having
never worked on this tran-axle before, I packed the
seal with grease and tapped it in with a mallet and
large socket as if it were a differential seal.

Everything went well, in fact maybe to well; it tapped
in quite easily. The Bently manual instructed me to
"drive in to stop". I was not sure if this meant to
drive the seal in until it rested against the bearing
or if the special tool placed the seal at a
unspecified depth. Anyway, long story short, I tapped
in the seal until the seal rested against the bearing.

All seemed to work out fine until this weekend, with
approximately 2000 mi on the new seal, it started
leaking again only this time worse. Does anyone have
any input on this?

Thanks for listening - Daniel

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
http://search.yahoo.com