[6pack] Transmission rear seal

[Al Salvatore]

Hi Mike,

I too,  recommend speedi sleeve.
I haven't used it for the transmission, but when I did a motor swap, it 
turned out that the replacement motor had a bad leak coming from the rear 
seal.
Upon removal of the rear seal,  I found a bad groove in the shaft.  Not 
wanting to tear the motor apart to polish out the end,  I got a speedi 
sleeve.  So far no leak.

Al Salvatore

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Snable" <jsnable at mac.com>
To: "michael lunsford" <mblunsfordsr at yahoo.com>
Cc: <6pack at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [6pack] Transmission rear seal


> Hi Mike,
>
> It's been a while since I worked on my car's rear seal leak, but I  think 
> the seal was pretty easy to remove once the flange was off. More 
> importantly in my case, I did the job twice as a new seal did not fix  the 
> leak. I ended up using a Speedi-Sleeve to provide a new sealing  surface 
> on the flange. I think I just measured the diameter and got  one at Napa 
> rather than ordering from one of the usual suspects. Not  cheap, but 
> something to consider while you are doing this job...
>
> Jay
> '73 TR6
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:40 AM, michael lunsford wrote:
>
>> I have a persistent leak from the rear seal on my transmission and 
>> thought
>> while I was replacing the old differential with the Q45 LSD I would  also
>> change the old tranny seal.  Are there any tricks to this or do I  just 
>> pry the
>> old one out and drive the new one in?  I know the old saw that "if a 
>> British
>> car stops leaking it's out of oil" applies but since I have the  motor 
>> down to
>> a drop or two every now and then, and hopefully the new Japanese  diff 
>> won't
>> leak, I thought I would see what I could do with the tranny.
>>
>> Mike Lunsford,
>> 1970 TR 6, soon with LSD (no, not the kind from the 70s)