seems like there was a trick product one can add to the transmission to
reinvigorate seals...was it kerosene...anybody?
RogerH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Morton" <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Leaks spring eternal
> I chickened out on replacing the rear main seal in my '59 Plymouth 318 --
> the one with the rust hole in the oil pan. I took it to my trusted local
> mechanic, and had him replace it while the pan was off. Reggie Knowlton
(on
> the list) had given me some good advice, replace the front trans seal if
> they have to pull the trans, so I picked up the seal. But then, the
> mechanic gave me some good news (or, so I thought at the time): He didn't
> need to remove the trans to replace the rear main seal -- the neoprene
seal
> comes in two pieces, and the upper part can be worked around the race with
> the cap off.
>
> When I arrived at the service station, the first thing I did was look
under
> the car. No apparent leaks! This is good, I thought. And indeed, the
car
> does not leak oil anymore.
>
> However: When I came out of the supermarket, I took another look under
the
> car. A leak! But wait -- it's red! I drove the two blocks to home, and
> parked in front of the house (not in the driveway, I've learned the hard
> way). Now I looked under the car, and a steady stream of red fluid was
> pouring from the front of the trans.
>
> It's clear that, in jostling the crank with the cap off to get the rear
main
> seal in, enough trauma was caused to an already ancient transmission seal
to
> trigger the leak. At least, that's my theory. Have a better one? By the
> way, when the mechanic removed the prophylactic baking pan I had wired
under
> the car this morning, prior to surgery, he had already seen a trace of
trans
> fluid in the pan. So this was an accident waiting to happen, by my
> guesstimate.
>
> (*sigh*) I guess eventually I'll be making a spring cruise, or a summer
one.
> It just seems like forever, tho. Mebbe the floods will stop, come
> November?!
>
> Dan
> '59 Sport Fury
>
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