restoring / cleaning up a yoke sealing surface

Rich

Rich

Asshole at large
Joined
Mar 17, 2005
Location
Central PA
On my driveshaft flange, the sealing surface that rides against the pinion seal is BAD. Really bad. (How bad it it?) It's so bad, that hitting it with the wire cup brush attached to the grinder improved it dramatically.

So now it's clean, but a little rough.

Is getting strips of progressively finer grit sandpaper and trying to polish up the metal the answer, or is there a better way? I've got 4 of them to do

I've always been told to use crocus(sp?) cloth, but that's just when there's a little rust spot on it... these are worse.
 
Try a speedy sleeve put the yolk in the freezer (over nite) & the sleeve on the oven @ 400 degrees then the sleeve will slip over the yolk let the temp's equilize & it will seal back up
 
Brilliant!

EDIT: FAWK those are expensive..

Maybe there's a few NOS ones around...
 
probably worn where it touches the seal. if you can't get a sleeve for it like said above. You could weld it up, and have it turned down to spec on a lathe, then polished up just like a crank
 
upnover said:
probably worn where it touches the seal. if you can't get a sleeve for it like said above. You could weld it up, and have it turned down to spec on a lathe, then polished up just like a crank
Click to expand...

Good Idea, if you go that route make sure that you alternate from side to side & keep it cool the heat may distort the the splines
 
Back
Top