So the leak still persists inconsistently. Sometime I can drive for 100 miles and it'll be bone dry and other times ill drive 20 miles and it'll be slightly wet. The troopy is an absolute joy to drive now, but I cant stop thinking about how much longer I have until that clutch starts to slip. This leads me to a possibly stupid idea but I would like others thoughts.
It's leaking a very negligible amount, still any amount on the clutch is horrible. Therefore what if I drilled a small hole in the bottom of the bearing retainer's shaft? To let it leak way before it could have a chance of even getting on the clutch. Obviously I would sand the hole flat with fine grit paper so the throwout bearing could still easily slide along it
Also just a question for whoever may know, why is the bearing retainer even a thing? Just seems like an extra failure point as proven with my current struggles along with
@FJBen, the Isuzu box truck transmission didn't have one, our old FJ40's 3spd didn't have one. Whats the advantage to it?