I gotta replace the rear crankshaft seal. The cold engine drips every 30 seconds at idle. Certainly it's wept over the last few years, but this dripping is sudden.
Crap.
I gotta put together a shopping list for those little things needed to put it all back together.
Drain transmission. Will need:
- Internal filter and extension gasket (has deep pan).
- External spin-on filter.
- Tractor fluid.
- A little of the ATF4 fluid.
* Transmission hard-parts pending what's found in the pan.
Drop/remove the skid-plate and transmission cooler/filter crap.
Remove exhaust plumbing as needed.
Disconnect both front and rear drive-shafts. Will need:
- Universal-joint straps and bolts for the front drive-shaft (at the differential).
- Universal-joint straps and bolts for the rear drive-shaft (at the transfer-case yoke).
Separate/drop transfer-case. Will need:
- That gasket between the transfer-case and the transmission.
Drop transmission.
Remove flex-plate.
Replace rear crankshaft seal. Will need:
- I've got one of the "New and Improved" rear crankshaft seals that forum member terryblue2002 was selling a while back (actually two).
Then put it all back together using those materials listed above. Easy as hell.
What am I forgetting?
- The new seal I got from terry doesn't include a depth/squaring tool like the genuine Cummins seal kit. Anybody got any tricks to get around that successfully?
I've read I want to get it just inside the bevel in the socket it goes into. It needs to be dead-on square in it's socket. The improved seal is to be lubricated upon installation.
- The transmission stuff, at the worst should need no more than a refreshing: a hand full of clutch-discs and steels, thrust-washers, and a couple of seals. If I find the pan with the brass shavings like last time, then the thrust-washers will most likely need replacing . . . . . . again.
Suggestions? Parts sources? Tips? Rude comments?
Thanks guys.