Thread: Oh dear! Loud bang and clatter racket.

Hi All

I found the best way to change that seal is to pull the speedo drive housing off and then tap the seal out from the inside of that housing.

Rover was using leather seals, that do weep, but spread the wear over a longer portion of the output flange seal surface. Most repairers now use the neoprene seals, however these seal concentrate the wear in one position, causing a wear line around the seal surface of the flange, but they generally stay dry.

Before you pull that housing off, you can check the preload on the bearing of the output shaft and there is a good description in the workshop manuals showing how to do this.
If you or anyone else reading this here, hasn't access to a manual, lets us know with a posting here and I will get off my sorry! and try scan the appropriate pages for you to follow.

An end to the loud bang, clatter, racket thread. I flew in from NSW, where I'd been working for a couple of weeks, late last Thursday night, packed DeeDee up with camping gear, a "few" tools and I drove DeeDee from Perth to Busselton for the Super Special Stage of the Quit Forest Rally (where I was an official for the motorbike class). We then headed across to Nannup that evening. Then trusty DeeDee then did duties as an official car, ferrying the Motorcycling Australia Steward and I (Clerk of Course) to a couple of start/finish controls to check everything was running smoothly. Finally I drove back to Busselton on the Sunday night to attend the official prize giving function and then left Busselton around 10:15pm for the long drive back to Perth. DeeDee never missed a beat, took wind and heavy rain in stride (albeit quite slow stride, as the wipers don't work too well in those conditions so 80kph was okay) and I thoroughly enjoyed the driving. When the weather wasn't being foul, we travelled along at 100kph quite comfortably. I got lot's of comments on the old girl and I had many laughs with people.

I also discovered to my delight, by virtue of also discovering that Nannup has no LPG available at either of it's fuel stations, that both petrol tanks do not leak and DeeDee runs fine on petrol. (I ran on petrol from Busso to Mandurah to make sure). All in all, a great weekend.

So I'll call it quits on the gearbox thread and start a new one for whatever calamity calls next.

Cheers to all for your advice to date.
John B