Re: Sad day in 'rocco land......

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <wje97@hamp.hampshire.edu>]

Hmmm... drive flange oil seal leak. Bummer. OK, is it coming out of
where the flange goes into the transmission, or is it coming out of the
inner CV joint? If it's coming out of the CV joint, no big deal, you
should repack the CV joint and replace the little cap in the middle of
the drive flange (you'll see it when you take the CV joint off). If it's
the drive flange oil seal, meaning the oil is coming out in between the
flange and the transmission, then it's a much bigger deal, requiring
special puller tools and such. Some people say that once these go, it
usually means that there is play in the final drive, and when you
replace the seal, it will just go again soon. In this case, a rebuild or
new trans is in order. But I don't know if this is really the case, I've
just heard it - sounds plausible to me, though - drive flange is moving
around, causes seal to leak. Replace seal, same thing will happen again.

    Where do you live? Don't you live in NH someplace? So do I. Maybe
you could come over to my place next week sometime (I'll be home from
college) and we could check it out.
    Good luck!
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI
    '87 QSW
    http://bork.hampshire.edu

"Bonnie E. Muscavitz" wrote:

>  Ok guys... i just crawled under my rocco, and say that the about half
> of the tranny is covered in either tranny fluid or motor oil.  It
> seems to be comming from the drivers side where the shaft goes into
> the transmission.  My dad seems to think that the cv joint is going to
> either be replaced of rebuilt.  does anybody have any extras lying
> around?  in case this makes a difference.. it's an 88 16v.  right now
> $$ is kinda tight so i'd like to get out of this whole ordeal as cheap
> as possible, and only being 16, i'm really not too sure about what
> this is going to cost.  Any ideas??thanx guys, (and girls.. i know
> theres a few out there...  somewhere. . .)corey muscavitz


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