While my engine is out I'm going to paint my tranny and address a couple leaks. The tranny was rebuilt a couple years back (but they didn't paint it ), so I'm just cracking it open and replacing the seals & gaskets.
I torn it apart this weekend but have a question things I was hoping to get forums help/suggestions on.
One leak is the typical one at the shift selector. The outer o-ring and the 'inner' seal look ok; I was hoping they forgot to change one of them, but doesn't appear to be the case.
Looking at the inner seal it is not symmetrical, so I'm wondering if there a specific side that should go in first?
With the shafts out of the tranny, when I put them together, it almost looks like the o-ring isn't thick enough. I slid the shafts together and put in the o-ring. The round part of the shaft (which ends at the notch for the outer cable bracket) sticks out more than the o-ring. So once the cable bracket is on, there will be a space between it and the o-ring. Is that correct? Is it like that so the fluid will 'press' the o-ring against the bracket? Wondering if I should put two o-rings on there. The seal kit does have a round seal/ring that is flat on the outer edges that is the same diameter as the o-ring, so I could use that instead of a 2nd o-ring from the kit.
The other leak I have is at the back where the extension is mounted. Looks like the cause of that is hair-line cut at one of the bolts. I've attached a pic to show it. What suggestion do you have for that? I was wondering if I put some Permetex 26B on there (between it and the gasket) if that would work, or if I needed to J-B Weld it.
If you got here, thanks for reading the entire post . And thanks in advance for any info.
I torn it apart this weekend but have a question things I was hoping to get forums help/suggestions on.
One leak is the typical one at the shift selector. The outer o-ring and the 'inner' seal look ok; I was hoping they forgot to change one of them, but doesn't appear to be the case.
Looking at the inner seal it is not symmetrical, so I'm wondering if there a specific side that should go in first?
With the shafts out of the tranny, when I put them together, it almost looks like the o-ring isn't thick enough. I slid the shafts together and put in the o-ring. The round part of the shaft (which ends at the notch for the outer cable bracket) sticks out more than the o-ring. So once the cable bracket is on, there will be a space between it and the o-ring. Is that correct? Is it like that so the fluid will 'press' the o-ring against the bracket? Wondering if I should put two o-rings on there. The seal kit does have a round seal/ring that is flat on the outer edges that is the same diameter as the o-ring, so I could use that instead of a 2nd o-ring from the kit.
The other leak I have is at the back where the extension is mounted. Looks like the cause of that is hair-line cut at one of the bolts. I've attached a pic to show it. What suggestion do you have for that? I was wondering if I put some Permetex 26B on there (between it and the gasket) if that would work, or if I needed to J-B Weld it.
If you got here, thanks for reading the entire post . And thanks in advance for any info.