<VV> Re: Welcome to the "VirtualVairs" mailing list (Digest mode)

[Mike Kost]

Take a close look at the mating surface of both your old diff and your 
new diff. It seems to me that in one of them there is a relief cutout 
for a bolt on the transmission. I don't have any 4 bolt diff laying 
around to check but it seems that I remember hearing there is a difference.

Tareece@aol.com wrote:

>Hey Guys/Gals,
>   I'm in trouble. I am having problems with a diff (66) leaking at the seal 
>with the Tranny (65)...
>   Let me give you some history....I have a 65 monza vert...It spun a 
>rearend bearing. I bout a 66 to put in it...I put them together using a gasket from 
>the 1980's...I torqued properly. LEAK...
>   Thinking I had an old gasket, I ordered 3 more....(good thing too)...I 
>took apart, cleaned mating surfaces, put the gasket on, applied gasket sealant, 
>and torqued....LEAK.....
>    Now, I'm upset..I looked at the seal and the only place it is leaking is 
>where the 65 tranny is a little lower than the mating surface of the 66 Diff...
>    As someone wrote in the Tech Supplement- the diff is the least explained 
>and least wrote about system in the whole powertrain.
>   I hope to hear from more than a few of you!! (hint-hint)
>
>Todd Reece
>65 Monza Convert
>  
>

-- 
Mike Kost
Show-Me Corvair Club