Tacoma747
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- Joined
- Mar 20, 2005
- Location
- Winston-Salem
If it's not one problem it's another...
To make it wasy to visualize, since a Honda civic does not have a front or rear driveshaft, I a referring to front and rear as which shaft will be front or rear on my buggy.
Problem: Rear shaft did not have a snapring to hold it in (had a carrier block on car), well, it would work better for me to basically swap the shafts (front to rear, rear to front). This would work out perfectly fine, or so I thought...
The section on each shaft where the oil seal seals is different from one to the other... The outer diameter of the seals is different which I knew, but I just figured the sealing surface on each shaft was the same.
What is now the rear driveshaft will fit in the seal that is there, but it is tight, so it would probably seal, but might cause faster wear on the seal? The shaft for the front is loose, no way it will seal.
Is there anywhere that would have a good variety of seals? Or maybe some way to get a custom seal w/o costing an arm/leg/kidney?
How tight would you consider "too" tight on an oil seal? The type with the little tension spring inside. If needed I could make a slug to press in the front side, to reduce it down to where one of the rear seals would fit, but that doesn't fix the problem of the too tight one in the rear.
To make it wasy to visualize, since a Honda civic does not have a front or rear driveshaft, I a referring to front and rear as which shaft will be front or rear on my buggy.
Problem: Rear shaft did not have a snapring to hold it in (had a carrier block on car), well, it would work better for me to basically swap the shafts (front to rear, rear to front). This would work out perfectly fine, or so I thought...
The section on each shaft where the oil seal seals is different from one to the other... The outer diameter of the seals is different which I knew, but I just figured the sealing surface on each shaft was the same.
What is now the rear driveshaft will fit in the seal that is there, but it is tight, so it would probably seal, but might cause faster wear on the seal? The shaft for the front is loose, no way it will seal.
Is there anywhere that would have a good variety of seals? Or maybe some way to get a custom seal w/o costing an arm/leg/kidney?
How tight would you consider "too" tight on an oil seal? The type with the little tension spring inside. If needed I could make a slug to press in the front side, to reduce it down to where one of the rear seals would fit, but that doesn't fix the problem of the too tight one in the rear.
