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10-27-2023, 10:47 PM | #1 |
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Differential bearing retainer questions.
1996 Subaru Legacy L - Everything here is my first time doing this- new to wrenching. Learning as things break. Rebuilt the engine successfully reading a lot of threads on here. I thank you. Now I have been learning how wrong things are around the differential area.
Today I started with a torn CV boot. Went to remove the pin but didn't like how hard I was pounding and it not moving. So I pulled the entire CV with the stub axle. The seal was bad on the retainer so I had a friend come over and help pull the driver-side retainer cause it was oddly too tight to turn alone. Threads pealed out as it came out. I know I didn't do it taking it out cause I have now taken out 2 others in the scrap yard and installed the one currently in mine without issue(got it off an identical engine ). Performance Tool Spindle Socket - W83008 is a cheap Oriellys tool that fits the sundials perfectly with a metal saw to the inner tube. I got OEM oring and seal. The sundial is now leaking right at the bottom, super slow but it is leaking. 1. Would it be worth getting a new sundial from the Subaru parts store ($80 - part yard was $4) or is it more likely that even a new one wouldn't solve the leak? Threads on the case were intact and fine on the case side, but maybe they are just minorly damaged enough now that will always leak? The donor sundial screwed in smoothly and the car drives smoothly. but man can you smell that diff fluid? Especially sitting as it hits that muffler. 2. My other thought was to back the sundial out 3 -4 turns apply RTV to the threads and turn to position and fill diff after drying. what I pulled out originally. LEFT------------- Donor that is currently installed. RIGHT https://imgbb.com/WHWMzxD
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10-28-2023, 08:54 AM | #2 |
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Leaking between the sundial and case?
Did you replace the O-ring? If not that is your problem. Or, you did not lube the o-ring and pinched or displaced the O-ring. You have to get everything hyper-clean before you remove and install those sundials - I saw a Subaru dealer tech ruin 3 sundials and one diff case on a 4EAT once... |
11-11-2023, 11:45 AM | #3 |
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Appreciate the reply. I had that thing lubed up before I turned it in. Appeared to be leaking but I haven't had any smell or visual floor dots since the first couple of days so I am beginning to think that it was just excess not a leak. I may have jumped the gun and it was just fluid caught in-between the muffler shroud and muffler.
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