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iceracer
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: Trans oil leaking out CV |
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Been replacing the entire exhaust on my 86 syncro this week. WHAT A JOB!!! Anyway, I noticed I have trans oil leaking out the inner left CV boot. SO what's up with that? Could it be that little rubber cup/cover on the cv flange fell off? Gotta pull it.
BTW, HERE in WIS my S and S header only lasted 3 yrs with me making several addtional welds to it over the last 3 yrs. Bummer. If you are going to get one of those and you live in the salt ridden climate, get it ceramic coated.
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brettsvw
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iceracer
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Did the seal work its way out/loose on yours? I am thinking of doing what you did or pulling another seal off of a trans I have in the garage and just swapping out.
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Franklinstower
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Iceracer,
I just posted the same issue with my inner left CV last week. The CV was completely full of gear oil. I cleaned up the drive flange and pulled the plastic cup seal out and it looked perfect. I can't see why it was leaking. I am going to smear a little Ultra Grey on it when I install it tonight. Of course, this has lead to removing and cleaning all my CV's and finding they are original, with 220k on them. They were all pitted and sloppy. I cheaped out and went for 'reconditioned axles'. They already have me worried and I don't even have them in yet. I am repacking my old ones with new boots just in case.
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iceracer
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Yeah, I am not fond of buying anything that is made in china. But the cost of cv's made in Germany are out of this world. I just spent a fortune on front axles for my syncro made in Germany. Crap, but the old ones are junk, 171000 miles and all are sloppy.
Well I am going to pull the cv and inspect, my thoughts are perhaps the plug came loose. Weird thing is it just started and now it leaves a spot when parked. It happenned real fast.
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