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[Rebelution]

The pinion seal on my rear diff has been leaking so I decided to replace it today. I marked the drive shaft and the pinion nut and everything before I took it apart. Tapped the new seal in all the way. Put everything back together exactly how it came apart. Anyway, I went to top off the fluid and realized the leak is worse than ever!! I took it back apart and can't figure out why it's leaking. Any suggestions?

 

[crmzendrgone]

How did you get the seal out. Pick tool?? did you score the surface on accident.

Maybe wrong seal??? did you put a little RTV in the mating surfaces when you put it in??

Maybe to much fluid???

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Any pics?

 

[Rebelution]

Upon closer inspection I can see that the fluid is coming out from behind the seal. It's leaking over the top of the bottom half of the seal. I can take a picture if you don't understand what I'm trying to say. The seal is tapped in all the way.

I used a seal puller to get the old one out. I used some gasket sealer on the outside of the seal and the inside already had some red rtv on it. And the fluid shouldn't leak out of the pinion seal if there's too much fluid. It came pouring out of the seal before I could even fill it to the top of the filler hole.

 

[Rebelution]

Well after I took a good look at it I could see it was the wrong seal. Crmzendrgone, thanks for the help, I assumed it was the wrong seal from the start, but you know how assumptions go lol.

So I took the old and "new" seal back today and they gave me the right one. Refund on the wrong seal plus the new one free of charge (only about 8 bucks, but still..) Popped that sucker in, hasn't leaked a drop so I'm pretty satisfied.

Also, I greased the slip yoke while I had the driveshaft out. I have to recomend that to anyone who has the notorious honking noise when you take off from a stop. Takes no time at all and it makes a world of difference.

 

[crmzendrgone]

COOL glad things worked out ok for you. Nice little trick about greasing the yoke huh