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Originally Posted by madmaxx
Bartruff1,
Inside the rubber boots is grease. Grease is made of soap and oil, Soap is used to hold the oil in place. If you are seeing a drip of oil, which given enough time will make a 3" diameter discoloration on cast aluminium you may have no issues. If your boots are not split, forget about it. Beleive it or not 80% of the grease in cv joint never sees service, how would it nothing pumps it in there. The grease is spun around any by centrifugal force the oil gets seperated from the soap and by capilarry action finds it way out.
As far as the rear end leaking there should be a drop or two every now and then, it keeps the lip seal lubricated. If you aint getting drops on your driveway every single time you drive it you do not have a problem.
If you do take it somewhere make sure they dont try to take you for a ride.
By the way buy GLD hold through september and sell, statistics shows it goes up 5-7% in September every year since 1993. |
I just got back from a 3k mile road trip with many high speed runs - 120+ mph - across Montana and Wyoming. I bring this up because I have found three quarter coin sized puddles of fluid that looks like it may have come from the pinion seal(?). Thinking maybe the pressure build in the ring and pinion housing at high speed may have caused this leaking that showed up on my garage floor when I got home. A short trip across the Island and back showed no continued leaking from the rear end area. Should I not worry about this??