Thanks Geoff for your reply to my problem.
>The problem you describe is endemic to all TCs. Plugging it with a sink
>plug may work temporarily, but does not cure the problem.
Agreed.
>If oil is
>seeping past the fit of the hub on the half shaft splines, it is because
>one or the other is worn.
I think the oil is working its way past the splines where the axle is
force fitted to the hub. I reason this because the oil is not leaking
(yet) onto the brake linings but rather working its way into the hub.
I have a new set of rear hubs and half shafts which I have been carrying
as spares against the day that I break an axle in competition.
It's actually hard to see how the half shaft splines would wear provided
that they were a good force fit in the first place. The surface area in
contact one with the other is pretty great and there would seem to be
other points of less resistance - namely wheel splines.
Mind you, when I pressed this last set of half shafts into the (new)
hubs the splines required a bit of machining to marry them up.
>The wear will only get worse with use, to the
>point that the rear wheel may actually wobble even though it is
>tightened onto the hub. This is potentially hazardous.
Yes - a favourite point for checking by scruiteneers.
>There is a man,
>one Phil Marino, in California who produces a very satisfactory
>conversion for the hubs.
Terry posted me Phil's contact number. I'll follow this up.
>I have no direct experience of this, but
>everyone to whom I have spoken tells me it is first class. It may be
>worth your while checking him out.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Geoff Love, The English Connection.
Thanks Geoff for you input - much appreciated.
Paul
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