The oil CAN run out! Last year I jacked up the back of my car real far so
I could work on the muffler in comfort and convenience, and the next
day the clutch was chattery in first and reverse. Fortunately, it
got better after a couple of months (and a bit of theraputic clutch-burning).
I would also advise against parking downhill on a San Francisco street. :-)
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 08:37 PM 3/25/00 -0500, Bob Harris wrote:
>Bill,Brett & All,
> For what it's worth, Not only do the early models
>use the scroll seal,but J-type O.D.'s use them also.I Don't know if all of
>them use it,but I found out when I had to replace my first motion shaft in
>the O.D. that came from a '79.
>
>Bob Harris
>
> >
> > Brett,
> >
> > I know the early gearboxes used a "scroll seal" at the front. The hole
> > in the bell housing is threaded, and the clearance is very small. Any
> > gear oil that splashes up there adheres to the input shaft because of
> > the tight clearance and its own viscosity, and is essentially screwed
> > back into the box by the turning shaft.
> >
> > This does not work if the level of the oil reaches the scroll, but this
> > could only happen if the gearbox were severely tilted forward.
> >
> > Don't know whether or when they switched to a rubber seal. If there are
> > no fresh major oil tracks in the bell housing running down from this
> > opening, I'd advise leaving it alone.
> >
> > Bill Kelly
> > '62 Herald
> >
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