-- [ From: Bob Nogueira * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --
Steve
At the axle bearing opposite the zerk fitting is a tiny hole .
Bob Nogueira
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> Date: Monday, 12-May-97 08:23 PM
>
> From: Steve Moore \ Internet: (steve@tap.csiro.au)
> To: MORGANS@autox.team.net \ Internet: (morgans@autox.team.net)
>
> Subject: 7HA axle breather
>
> Hi all,
>
> After playing around with chronically leaky rear axle oil seals for some
months
> somebody asked me what should have been the obvious question.
>
> "Is the breather hole in the rear axle blocked?"
>
> Simple I thought. I had noticed a small drill hole when I had the axle out
> during a chassis repair some years back. Trouble is I now can find no
trace of
> any breather hole despite scraping off a considerable amount of paint.
This
> would suggest that the hole has been well and truly blocked. Can anyone
tell me
> where I should start looking for the breather hole. It must be either at
the
> top of the centre casing or axle tubes but WHERE?
>
> While on the subject is there a correct protocol for fitting the inner and
> outer axle oil seals? It was suggested to me that the inner seals require
> pre-soaking in oil for a period of days. Is this correct.
>
> And to rekindle a recent discussion is there any decent method for
removing oil
> from brake linings other than buying new ones?
>
> Happy motoring
>
> Steve Moore
>
> Dr. Stephen Moore
> CSIRO Tropical Agriculture
> Molecular Animal Genetics Centre
> Level 3, Gehrmann Laboratories
> University of Queensland
> St. Lucia, 4072
> Australia
>
> ph 61 7 3377 0476
> fax 61 7 3377 0480
>
>
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