DonaldSmith Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 Since I got my DeSoto Suburban eleven years ago, the pinion seal has leaked. Early on, I replaced the seal, but it resumed leaking soon afterwards. The flange surface wants to be 1.75 inches in diameter, and the recess to receive the seal is 3.15 inches in diameter. I shimmed the perimeter of the last seal with thin strips of stainless steel,and it didn't leak there. It leaked where there were grooves worn into the surface of the flange. Now I have the pinion flange out, and am trying to find a machine shop to fix the surface and find the right size seal. The few places I have tried so far say they don't have a speedy sleeve for such an old car. I'm waiting for a call from a driveline specialty shop. Wish me luck, or maybe I'll have to send it away somewhere. Quote
TodFitch Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 I was under the impression that Speedi-Sleeves were available in myriad sizes and you simply selected them by required diameter. That certainly is the impression I get looking at the SKF web site. Is the machine shop looking in an automotive application guide or simply measuring and undamaged portion of the shaft and matching that up to what is in the industrial equipment repair specifications in the Speedi-Sleeve application guide? Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 they are available in about any and all standard and metric sizes...you can still find the part number through the Chicago rawhide catalog online... Quote
DonaldSmith Posted June 14, 2013 Author Report Posted June 14, 2013 Aha! Acting on a hunch... I looked up my receipt for the last seal (2003), scouted the internet, and came up with the SKF site. I contacted the local distributor and found out that the speedi-sleeve is so thin, that I can use the same size seal as the original diameter of the shaft. The speedi-sleeve comes with its own cup-type installation tool. I can do it all myself. No machine shop required. So I ordered the deal and sleeve. I'll just wait for the parts to arrive, within a week. 1 Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 another happy proactive member...hats off to you for going the way of the DIY Quote
Guest bewillie Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 Put your yoke in the freezer for a day before trying to put the sleeve on. Quote
Young Ed Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 another happy proactive member...hats off to you for going the way of the DIY And another shop shooting themselves in the foot by not knowing any better. What kind of lame excuse is they don't make sleeves for old cars?? They don't really make them for specific cars at all. I've always just seen them listed by dimension. It would be like going to home depot and hearing we don't sell 2x4s for houses that old..... Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 I won't say it...I won't say it..aaaaargh...they probably don't sell 2 x 4 for houses that old...mine was built on old standard measurements in 1908 http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/misc/miscpub_6409.pdf Quote
Don Coatney Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 That was in the days when men were men and 2x4's were 2x4's Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 14, 2013 Report Posted June 14, 2013 and the board of education was oak and more than not had a few holes drilled into it.. Quote
martybose Posted June 15, 2013 Report Posted June 15, 2013 and the board of education was oak and more than not had a few holes drilled into it.. didn't you mean more than KNOT had a few holes in it..? Marty Quote
DonaldSmith Posted June 15, 2013 Author Report Posted June 15, 2013 They would drill holes in the board to enhance the disciplinary effect. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 15, 2013 Report Posted June 15, 2013 no hard core corporal punishment rallying teacher I knew would ever consider a board with knots and risk losing the true meaning of the lesson they are so duly trying to instill on your backside Quote
Tom Skinner Posted June 15, 2013 Report Posted June 15, 2013 NAPA sells Speedy Sleeves at around $45 a pop. I have had a few Yard Sticks broken over me in the sixties by teachers that caught me talking when I wasn't supposed to be. L.O.L. Quote
Don G 1947 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Posted June 16, 2013 I won't say it...I won't say it..aaaaargh...they probably don't sell 2 x 4 for houses that old...mine was built on old standard measurements in 1908 http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/misc/miscpub_6409.pdf I had a place built around 1870, maybe earlier, and a 2x4 was any thing that came out of the mill that couldn't pass as a 3x6. Spacing? Any where the brick mason or carpenter wanted to put it. Don Quote
DonaldSmith Posted June 20, 2013 Author Report Posted June 20, 2013 The pinion seal was on order, and the speedi-sleeve was in stock. Today the pinion seal arrived, and I installed the speedi-sleeve and pinion seal. I hope that those two items cure the leak. (Check off one more item on the to-do list.) I had my wife step on the brake, both when I removed the pinion shaft nut and when I re-installed it. Otherwise, even with the wheels on the ground and chocked, they moved enough to limit the available swing of the wrench. And of course the emergency brake is of no use, with the driveshaft disconnected. Quote
seabee1950 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Posted June 20, 2013 Tim I was reading this and I came to the part about the 2x4's and thought if Tim see's this he will comment and low and behold there it was the very next posy LOL LOL LOL. So darn funny you are. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 20, 2013 Report Posted June 20, 2013 always room for the truth CB...! Quote
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