Thread: LT95 handbrake oil leak

Originally Posted by rar110

Thanks Steve.

Should I take off the oil catcher and apply some flange sealant/gasket goo?

I would, otherwise there is nothing stopping any oil that does leak from getting into the drum.
Pretty sure in the overhaul manual it states to put the oil catcher on with sealant.

Steve

assuming you have the old hand brake setup it may be a good time to ditch all the brackets and rods and just get a defender cable one. All you need is everything, backing plate to the end of the cable.

The oil catcher is the last of your problems. i assume you have swapped out the seal. You can get a double lipped one if you shop around. But the real problem is the spine leaking.

I ditched the felt thing and replaced it with some nylon conveyor belt cut to shape and a good coating of RTV.

That is after checking that there is no play in the output shaft.

The out put flanges for a RR are same front and back. different on the counties.

Drive shaft to long to get off, just jack up the back of the car. High lift on the rear cross member

Oh oil in the drum, just run for 1/2 klm with the hand brake on, smells a bit but just burn it out

Originally Posted by steveG

I would, otherwise there is nothing stopping any oil that does leak from getting into the drum. Pretty sure in the overhaul manual it states to put the oil catcher on with sealant. Steve

Thanks Steve, I used locktite flange sealant under the oil catcher.

I finished this job over the weekend. It took me about 8 hrs over about 4 days. But I took it fairly carefully, taking a lot of time to clean up oil contamination and to ensure the shaft and hub spline were clean.

The photo below is the gearbox filter. The fragment it caught is pretty normal I understand.

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The next thee photos are after cleaning up the hub & shaft and applying some forma gasket.

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My propane touch hasn't worked in a while. So I used a butane stove to burn the oil off the shoes. I was surprised how much of the black stuff oozed out

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Finally a pic of it all back together. I used the standard seal part as I have a heap of them. I also used a felt washer as I had some of them too. I applied some forma gasket to the underside of the felt. Will see how it goes.

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I adjusted the handbrake according to the manual and took it for a drive. It was a bit too tight and the drum was above boiling point. I backed it off and adjusted it at the cable end.