HT413
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for installing this in the 8-3/4 housing instead of a vent bolt, thus costing me my axle seals. Your attention to detail rivals that of only the Chinese Department of Quality Control.
Special thanks to the P.O.
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I had some similar fixes on my car.... I felt bad for the PO he really loved the car but had no mechanical abilities and every shop he took the car to screwed him on parts he paid for that never made it on the car or were mismatched from stuff the shop had laying around.... the front disc conversion was missing a dust cover and they were different size on L/R and on backwards with a bad twist in the rubber line for the $2500 he was charged for parts and labor.... I fixed it for $600
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Funny you should mention this. I had an '83 Cordoba that I bought with 19,000 original miles. The diff cover was leaking so I put a new gasket on it and all was well for about a week. Then I started driving to work (highway mile) and the seal let loose. Come to find the same thing, a bolt in place of the vent but I swear it was a factory bolt and am willing to bet it was there from the git go. I knew something was amiss when I pulled the diff cover and it had red RTV smeared all over the place. For an original owner, low mileage car, nobody should have had to be in the rear. I figured they ran out of vents at the axle line and just stuck a bolt in there, you know "temporarily".
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I hate crap like that! But I also like good finds like that.
On my hemi Charger someone drilled an 1/8" hole in a manifold pipe plug but it wasn't obvious because of the angle it was at. You can't really see the #8 intake runner pipe plug face from any viewing angles in the engine compartment, and it's not that you would expect an 1/8" hole in the center of one anyway. The plug was there and that was good - or so one would think. I chased a dead #8 hole for a long time until I finally, out of frustration, said "there has to be a vacuum leak right HERE" just as I was putting my hand on it. It was like searching for a month for buried treasure and finally throwing the shovel against the bookcase out of frustration and end up hitting the one book that rolls the secret wall around.
On my hemi Charger someone drilled an 1/8" hole in a manifold pipe plug but it wasn't obvious because of the angle it was at. You can't really see the #8 intake runner pipe plug face from any viewing angles in the engine compartment, and it's not that you would expect an 1/8" hole in the center of one anyway. The plug was there and that was good - or so one would think. I chased a dead #8 hole for a long time until I finally, out of frustration, said "there has to be a vacuum leak right HERE" just as I was putting my hand on it. It was like searching for a month for buried treasure and finally throwing the shovel against the bookcase out of frustration and end up hitting the one book that rolls the secret wall around.
HT413
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Yeah, it's a labor of love but also an exercise in frustration sometimes. So on Saturday I jacked the driver side way up so that when I pulled the axle I'd minimize leakage. Sounds like a good idea, huh? Yep, and it was... until I woke up the next morning and found the passenger side seals let loose and dumped the whole diff fluid on the garage floor. :angryfire:
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