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Subject:Re: Syncro trans input shaft guide sleeve
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Sun, 13 Jun 2021 15:18:41 -0700

All three good.

Btw, tranny is out and hanging on hoist.

Cleaning the oil and dirt off it. The Shift selector seal really increased its leak rate recently :-)

One output shaft weeping too. And I kinda wonder if the diff lock shaft is leaking a bit .

Scraping the heavy dirt and oil from the trans…

#vanlife

:-)

Alistair 

> On Jun 13, 2021, at 3:15 PM, Neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LOL. Yes I'm sure!
> 
> I'm sure you'd notice this if it was an issue but I found one of the
> threaded holes in the clutch housing on my 2wd air cooled tranny was
> stripped out. Easy fix though.
> 
> Neil.
> 
>> On 6/13/21, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Well it seems obvious now Neil!
> 
> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2021, at 2:45 PM, Neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> My take on that is:
>>> 
>>> "if guide is plastic, do not grease"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil n
> 
> VE7TBN
> 
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> 
> 1981 Westy 15º ABA swap: https://tinyurl.com/y9n4xob8
> 
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