But presumably there was one in there when he brought the car into the
shop. If it doesn't have one now, and that turns out to be his problem,
there will be no question as to who has to fix it. If it's not there,
there's only one way it could not be there. They probably have some fine
print in their work agreement that they will pay for the defective part but
not consequential damage : (

Jim

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:27 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> As long as we are speculating, I would be concerned that they forgot to
> put a pilot bearing into the rebuilt motor. That lets the pilot/input
> shaft wobble against the tranny seal and then the seal leaks as well as
> you can get damage to the oil slinger sleeve.
>
> The tranny seal can leak without much oil getting into the clutch disc.
> The release bearing operating sleeve is designed to catch leaking tranny
> oil and let it drain straight down from a hole in the bottom of that
> sleeve.
>
> Mark
>
> Neil N wrote:
>
>> Even worse, it sounds as if he had a "dump" in the parking lot, meaning
>>> that he had some kind of steady leak going down the road,
>>>
>>
>> That sucks.
>>
>> One other possible factor is the oil slinger in clutch housing. I'm
>> not sure of the "how-why" but I've read that on high mile vehicles, it
>> can work it's way loose over time. If so, it may harm the input shaft
>> seal.  (??)
>>
>> image of oil slinger during an input shaft swap. (2WD, transmission
>> side of clutch housing):
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/leqbpzv
>>
>> I think it was Andrew Libby on thesamba.com Vanagon forum that posted of
>> this.
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>>