Thread: sailsbury pinion oil leak

Originally Posted by Dave110

be careful when tightening up the nut because the 'crush sleeve' takes a lot to get it to start to collapse but once it has started it is VERY easy to over tighten (experience) an alternative I did on my S111 was to have machined a solid spacer out of steel exactly the same as the collapsable spacer that wouldn't collapse as it is inevitable the seal will leak again sometime! and just nip up tight

What he said, collapsable spacers are great lumps of Poo

Dont even bother trying to set the pinion bearing preload with a fresh spacer by ANY other method except for dropping out the carrier (hemisphere) and doing it properly, all other methods (i.e "By feel") are likely to end in disaster

personally i'd take out the spacer and machine up a little block as per the sample, replace seal, put it back together and you can't **** up the nut either, To easy

Ok i got that jesus nut off the pinion yep jesus is the word now how do i get the pinion flange off is it a tap with a rubber mallet

yep, it's just a splined shaft. The seals a bitch to get out though!

ok ill worry about the seal when i get there a pn # might also help if i stuff the old seal removing it

anyone have a pn for the seal ill be going thru a bearing place so it will be a generic brand i spose

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

no sarcasm

you wanted a yes or no answer....

typical customer when they get what they ask for they complain about not getting what they actually needed....


I'll bet you drive a toyota dontcha....


Pull the shaft off
pull the jesus nut out
put the drive flange off
pull the seal out.

inspect the pinion shaft for damage speedy sleeve it if need be

and assembly is the reverse of dissasembly.

I'll apologise for the toyota line now.. I forgot, no personal attacks allowed.

Personal Attack is defined as when you grab him by the front of the neck with ya left hand......and panel beat the left side of his manable with ya right fist

ok got the flange off i had a 4 bolt puller id forgotten about

now ive got the flange off the pinion moves up down and sideways is this normal or is there dramas lurking there that i should attend to

As per my PM,

once the nut and flange is off some movement will be normal (bearing preload is now gone). IMO.

Yes normal - not sure if the pinion can be pushed into the housing, be careful. Also I don't like your chances of getting a seal at a bearing place. torak tractor has them for around $20 (from memory)