Rear Pinion Seal

[manoa matt]

I checked the level after I noticed it stoped leaking and it was right where it should be. go figure At least I got it running and tuned for my wedding this weekend. With that sprint air cleaner it sounds great. I'll post some pix of the latest mods and maybe a few of us in our finery.

matt

[James2000spider]

Matt, I guess you and your bride are coming to the "mainland" for your honeymoon? My wife and I went to Hawaii for our honeymoon from Alabama (long flight). She wants to move there now. It is a beautiful place. Hey, congrats. Hope ya'll have a great life together!

Anyway, back to Fiat talk; bet it's a pain to find parts there.

[124cso]

AS mark has said, you need the crush sleeve to maintain pressure inside the diff. It sort of works like a spring if that helps some understand it. You cannot READ a torque to undo a nut & apply the same to do it up. A nut torqued down to say 100 ft/Lbs may take 150 to crack it off, simply due to friction. It is for this reason that you always torque a nut or stud in one continuious pull of the wrench.
If buying a torque wrench, go for the dearer ones that you preset, rather than the pointer ones. They either click or a pin pops at the desired torque. It's difficult to read a dial AND pull up 100 plus foot pounds. Most good wrenches will come with imperial to Metric conversion charts to show foot pound to newton metres to kilogram metres etc

[78spyderturbo]

yes, seals usually stop leaking when the level gets too low. Rarely do they fix themselves

I have removed the nut many times since I change the rear end final drive very often and use an impact wrench to remove and install the nut and still no leak's from that area.