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Re: Brake Pedal+Diff Leak

To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>, "Mark Gardner" <mrgrdnr@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Brake Pedal+Diff Leak
From: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:03:58 +0100
Mark

Diff oil leak.

Get under the car, on axil stands at the back.  Note not on the axils, but
the chassis.   Ok reach under the car.  Find the diff with your hands.  Now
go to the right hand side as you face forward, passanger side US, drivers
UK.  Now come back untill you feel where it mounts to the chassis using that
realy long bolt.  There are two prongs which go through the bolt from the
diff.  You want the right hand side one!    Ontop of this you should feel a
dimple, caked in dirt and oil and stuff.  This is the breather for the diff.
You should be able to jiggle it with your fingers untill it moves arround
without resistance of the muck from under the car.  You have just unblocked
the breather, hopefully the oil leak will go away, it has in my car!  This
thing vibrates as the car is going along and keeps the breath hole clear,
just that after 20 years it tends to get a bit choked.


James



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