My 3-rail gearbox has been leaking for years, and I have not been able to completely eliminate the problem. It leaves a little puddle of gear oil on my garage floor.
The engine, on the other had, hardly leaks at all. I did do one non-obvious fix that reduced the leaking: I replaced the O-ring seals where the three shifter rails pass through holes in the front of the gearbox cover. Doug Braun '72 Spit --- Jim Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Spitfire's supposedly rebuilt gearbox drips oil > onto the exhaust > pipe. It's embarrasing, really. Visual inspection > shows oil all > over the outside, a classic case of external > lubrication. I'm > guessing that, appearances notwithstanding, it isn't > really leaking > through the metal casing nor even through most of > the seams, but > rather from just one or two key places, that the oil > is being blown > around to make it *look* like the casing is porous. > And I'm thinking > I need to pull it and re-seal it. > > So the question is, what would be the likely places? > Front, rear, > both, other seams? > > Don't know when I'm going to find the time to do > this, but it needs > to be done. Either that or build a shield. > > Tanks, > > Jim Muller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > > Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > [email protected] > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires > > http://www.team.net/archive _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
