what to do about grooved drive flanges

[maardak at yahoo.ca (Mark)]

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 --- "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu> wrote: > Okay, so the 4K I bought was supposed
to come with 100mm flanges but it
> turns out it has the stock 90mm flanges. I have 100mm axles so I'll need
> to swap the flanges from my old tranny over. No problem.
> 
> My only reservation is that I've fought a neverending battle to stop my
> drive flange seals from leaking. I'm trying to take steps to change this
> such as using a thicker (maybe non-synthetic) tranny oil but I'm
> wondering if grooves worn in the sealing surfaces of both drive flanges
> are at least partially to blame.
> 
> Can anything be done without paying $50 x 2 for new flanges? I remember
> someone (Julie?) suggesting emery cloth or something along those lines to
> polish them up but I want to make sure before I start removing any
> material that the seals will "swell up" the few extra thousandths and not
> just leak worse. Anybody know?
> 
> -Toby
> 
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