Leaky tail shaft blues

[forcefed86]

My car never had any real leak issues until I recently replaced the motor. After installing my transfer case I noticed I was getting a drip from the driveshaft input seal. So after dropping the case and installing new input and output seals I still have the same issue? When filling the case I leveled the car out on jack stands. (just eyeballed it). Then added fluid in the top until it started to pour out the fwd fill plug.

Is it normal for the transfer case to weep a bit until it finds a happy fluid level? I’m getting a puddle about the size of the avg pancake parking it overnight. It does not appear to leak at all when running.

Thanks!

 

[GRAVEDIGGER]

Sounds like you need one of these.

1G AWD Driveshaft Repair Yoke

This is the one I got and it solved my problem.

 

[forcefed86]

Not that I'm saying this won't help. (couldn't hurt thats for sure) But all I did was swap the transfer case with another. The tail shaft did not leak on my other transfer case, so I would think teh problem woudl lie in the transfer case, or seal? Maybe I just over filled it and it will find a "happy" spot and stop leaking?

It's cheap enough I'll probably try it anyway.

Thanks for the link!

 

[GRAVEDIGGER]

Maybe you were low enough on fluid that it just wasn't leaking and now that you have filled up the new transfer case it is full enough to leak. Just a thought. Good luck.

 

[forcefed86]

Maybe you were low enough on fluid that it just wasn't leaking and now that you have filled up the new transfer case it is full enough to leak. Just a thought. Good luck.

dang you were right. Leaky yoke. Pulled it today. Had some rtv or something similar in it already.

It was a pain to remove the drive shaft so I don't know if I even want to try and re-epoxy it. Probably just order the kit and have the car down for another week.

Thanks!

 

[GRAVEDIGGER]

Yeah, you better just order a new one. It's not worth screwing around with and then having to redo it again. I've tried to fix them before and it just doesn't work. Get the kit and you'll be good to go.