Diff plugs

[Jay Kempf]

The car was well maintained for a long time and checked and topped up. 
Then I built this house and the project got away from me for a year and 
the car sat. When I got the shop done it sat some more before I could 
get to it. Probably 4 years it sat. Mainly indoors heated except for one 
summer.

When I started the car finally after going through everything and 
started to run it in there was a horrible scream from the back and then 
the seal started leaking badly. So I assume the bearing was dry or had 
some rust or something stuck in it that then cleared and that took the 
seal out as well. So I started in to just get the plugs out to make sure 
that I could drain and fill and was removing everything to get at the 
front pinion shaft cover on the diff. First I had to cut off the front 
cross member because it is pretty badly corroded. Now I am thinking get 
the diff out and pull the guts out and just take it to my friends 
machine shop and have him remove the plugs and fix the threads. I never 
understood why the giant 17mm tapered plugs. It's just an oil drain. 
Could have been a 6mm coarse bolt with a crush washer.

Regards,

jfk

802 272 5868
jkempf at madriver.com

On 9/21/2013 8:02 PM, Bernie Benz wrote:
> How do you know that you have a bearing problem?
> Leaking seals are obvious, but if enough leaks out they won’t leak any more, causing bearing and gear problems.
> Obviously never been topped off if you can’t remove the fill plug.
> One can’t really beat on an L shaped Allen wrench.
> Cut an Inch off of it and pound on that with a BFH before applying a socket to it.
>
> As a last resort, I have a good Torsen V8 diff for you.
> Bernie
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Jay Kempf wrote:
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