rear end leaking

smokejaguar · #1 09-30-2006, 02:23 PM

i noticed a small puddle of oil after my rig was sitting for a while. It was directly under the rear end. I smelled it and it smelled like my dirt bike oil which is 80 weight, same as a rear end. Then i looked under it today, and it's leaking from the front of the rear end, where the shaft goes into. Any one know how much this is to replace and what i need for parts?

1986Z28 · #2 09-30-2006, 06:59 PM

sounds like the pinion seal, ive done it but it wasnt easy, i dont like rearend work, you might be better off paying someone else to fix it, but thats just me

666_speed · #3 09-30-2006, 07:38 PM

That would be the only thing I can think of. I agree, I hate that kind of work and would gladly pay someone else.

Morley · #4 10-01-2006, 12:05 AM

Hell, I'll change it for you for $50 + parts. Takes all of an hour to do it.

Savage Messiah · #5 10-01-2006, 12:19 AM

pinion seal.

FormulaLT1 · #6 10-01-2006, 06:16 PM

As long as you have a strong impact gun. Changing a pinion seal is a snap.

666_speed · #7 10-01-2006, 10:24 PM

I did it with some muscle, not much of a problem.

97cavalier · #8 10-01-2006, 11:59 PM

breaker bars help ALOT!

FormulaLT1 · #9 10-02-2006, 08:32 AM

No one likes easy these days huh. 1.5 literal seconds with my earthquake 650lb impact gun and that pinion nuts off. Leaving the rest of the 10 - 15 minutes of playing around with it to you guys polishing your "muscle" or breaker bar

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goldz28 · #10 10-02-2006, 08:43 AM

You and your power tools. I need to get some myself...lol

1986Z28 · #11 10-02-2006, 10:43 AM

yes power tools are great

wrightz28 · #12 10-02-2006, 11:06 AM

Until they break. You'd think, a Husky compressor bought at Home Depot, belt breaks, you'd get a belt from them right? No, of course not the jerks.

FormulaLT1 · #13 10-02-2006, 11:10 AM

No belt on mine. Infact, not even any oil to change. 3 years strong and still making that 6 horsepower and 150PSI and delivering the CFM to drive everything from my 10 inch orbital sander to my paint sprayer.

wrightz28 · #14 10-02-2006, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by FormulaLT1

No belt on mine. .

So what drives your piston then?

FormulaLT1 · #15 10-02-2006, 12:03 PM

You know, I have no idea. I never investigated the internal working of the thing. I just know it does not have any exposed external belt like a older unit I have and it always delivers up to 150PSI within a matter of a few secs and it is obviously making some power cause it can drive my 10 inch orbital sander at 90PSI without it slowing down to a near stop cause my old 4.5 horsepower unit with a 10 gallon tank use to drive the sander for like 35 secs then it was dead and had to stop for a minute so it could recharge.

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