This is going to be hard to describe but here goes. On my 67 Imperial I
have a leak at just below the vertical surface that the tailshaft bolts
to. It's a small space between the lower flange of the tailshaft and the
TOP of the oil pan FLANGE. To see it you have to look from the back of the
transmission looking forward. It's slightly off center of the tailshaft
and where it's leaking appears to look like the end of a aprox 3/4"
diameter shaft. Oil is seeping from this "shaft end". I've looked at the
breakaway photos of the 727 and see nothing that looks like this inside so
my next step is to drain the tranny,pull the pan and see.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Thx,
Chris Strohmeyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: IML: power steering leak - O rings
You can buy rebuild kits for the power steering pump that are really only
a seal kit. There is a big oring that seals the whole canister and a few
more seals for the shaft and the relief valve I think. Not that hard to
do.
Robin Giesbrecht
72 Imperial
From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: IML: power steering leak - O rings
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:26:56 -0800 (PST)
--- Chris Strohmeyer <chrisstroh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kenyan said...........
>
> 4. "Bad o-rings"? Anyone else that works on cars
> where you live? That sounds like bad advice to me,
> but it may be out of context and part of other info
> that he gave?
>
> Aren't there 1 or 2 large o rings on the power
> steering pump that seals the
> reservoir can?
>
> Chris
True. There are o-rings. The way that the thing's
put together sorta precludes catastrophic fluid loss
as described in the letter posted here, but to address
the question:
If I were going to pay a mechanic to deal with this, I
would buy a replacement pump unit that comes with a
warranty so that I didn't have to worry about it.
Reason being that I don't agree with paying a mechanic
to only partially rebuild a pump for a labor charge
that could very likely equal or exceed the cost of a
replacement. I would pay the rehab factory that will
give a warranty do that portion instead and get the
whole thing spec'd out by someone that does nothing
but. That's what I'd do, anyway.
Also, a failed O-ring seal is highly unlikely to cause
the sort of rapid fluid loss described, so that's what
I was thinking based on the info given, but I wasn't
there.
Please use an o in my name. I'm particular about
that.
-Kenyon
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