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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">I suspect you have the original 3speed gearbox installed.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">The gearbox has a design fault, as there is no real vent in the gearbox casing, so higher inside pressure when oil gets hot can´t evaporate as its should. So oil moves through any gap to find. When you get your leak closed at the clutch ring it will press out somewhere else. You can´t avoid it. The usual way out for the oil is at the clutch ring.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Betreff: [Healeys] Overdrive Question</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Datum: 2016-10-24T12:57:15+0200</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Von: "WILLIAM B LAWRENCE" <YNOTINK@msn.com></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">An: "healeys@autox.team.net" <healeys@autox.team.net></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Before everyone leaves and the lights are turned off I have a question I'd like to ask about the Laycock De Normanville overdrive. I have my transmission out out and realize I need to do a certain amount of disassembly of the OD because it is seeping oil at the clutch ring. There are no gaskets, but I would like to smear some Hylomar on the joint faces to stop the leak. If I remove the rear OD housing will there be enough clearance between the clutch ring and the clutch lining to allow me to move the ring away from the casing far enough to clean and seal the front surface without removing the entire OD and disassembling it?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">I started out to rebuild the engine and just keep finding more work needing to be done...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Thanks.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Bill Lawrence</p>
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