Hi All - I think I know the answer but wanted to confirm, I had a leak on the front transfer case output. Tons of great info on the site so felt pretty good about it. I dropped the driveshaft, unstaked the nut, removed the seal, siliconed everything, torqued it all down, staked the new nut, high-fived the beer fridge.... Came out the next morning and small drips from the dust shield. Doh.
I thought I could get by with a pretty rough output flange. I guess not. Removed the stake nut, pulled everything and looked like it must have leaked between the new seal and the flange.
Questions:
1) Based on the photo does it look like that pitted flange is toast? I think so but am holding out that someone says nah just slap x on it, works all the time...
2) I used a speedi sleeve on the rear before which looks like a larger size ( I kept the install cap and compared it). Is there a smaller speedi sleeve available for the front?
3) If I need to get a new flange, when I search all the usual sites a lot of them look like round bases instead of the square. Are the round base flanges interchangeable?
4) Also, I'm assuming based on things I've seen here that this is considered a course spline with 10 splines. Is that correct?
Thanks everyone.
1st photo is the pretty new seal
2nd photo is the flange I'm assuming is done for - the black coming out of the splines is the RTV from yesterday.
I thought I could get by with a pretty rough output flange. I guess not. Removed the stake nut, pulled everything and looked like it must have leaked between the new seal and the flange.
Questions:
1) Based on the photo does it look like that pitted flange is toast? I think so but am holding out that someone says nah just slap x on it, works all the time...
2) I used a speedi sleeve on the rear before which looks like a larger size ( I kept the install cap and compared it). Is there a smaller speedi sleeve available for the front?
3) If I need to get a new flange, when I search all the usual sites a lot of them look like round bases instead of the square. Are the round base flanges interchangeable?
4) Also, I'm assuming based on things I've seen here that this is considered a course spline with 10 splines. Is that correct?
Thanks everyone.
1st photo is the pretty new seal
2nd photo is the flange I'm assuming is done for - the black coming out of the splines is the RTV from yesterday.