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Diff fluid, et al.

To: spridgets team <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Diff fluid, et al.
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:11:09 -0600
        I can't find any of my literature (just moved) and I can't recall if 
the diff
requires other than normal fluid. I've got good ol' 80W-90 Castrol and that was
going to have gone in it, had the fill plug not been star-torqued on! Is there a
tool that fits this roughly 1/2" square plug? 
        The spooky thing which began this little charade, I found the left rear 
wheel
in a puddle of oil last week. I ventured off to the parts store today and bought
an axle seal and took the wheel off. I found the 4 nuts that hold the drum on
and the screw which holds the axle shaft in to be loose. The seal hadn't failed,
the oil was coming out through the hub! I've never pulled the axles out, and
it's been a year since I replaced the rear wheel cylinders so I can't imagine
how these got to be loose. I can't see how the seal would hold for a year, a two
hour drive here, and a week of tooling around here.  
-- 
~
'90 GS-500E: Saki.
MCMLXIX Sprite: Gin & Tonic.
'87 RX-7 TII: Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Steven Fooshee: Suddenly thirsty.
~

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