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Frustrating M46 leak! 200 1983

posted by  raidman on  Sat Apr 17 15:36 CST 2004
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Worked all week to take down,repair (I thought) and re-install an M46 tranny. It originally had a leak between the bell housing and the tranny box. I made a new gasket,repaired all the wires,repacked the drive line bearing,installed a new rubber holder for said bearing,new exhaust gasket to the manifold, replaced a missing bolt for the upper bell housing,new Type F fluid and loctited (blue stuff) everything.Spray painted it all Matte Black.Boy, did it look GREAT!!
Ran it for 30 minutes on the lift with the wheels off the ground and OD engaged. Worked great.Left it overnight. Then this morning,found a dribble of Type F fluid at teh original leak point between the bell housing and the tranny box.
Planning to drop her out again,re-do the gasket but this time use BLUE SILICON to help seal.
Will this help? Anybody got any suggestions?
Getting pretty close to just driving it and adding Type F on a weekly basis.
Gracias,
el Raidman







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