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Summary: Clean the differential axle housing out, since the oil in it will hold the dirt on the gasket surface, causing leaks; learn how to clean the housing in this free auto-restoration video.
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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more
Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and were going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. The next step is to clean the axle housing out. He's going swab all that oil out of there. We don't want any oil in it when were doing our clean up because the oil will hold the dirt. So you kind of push all the oil out of there. He will also use the break clean here to get it all real nice and clean so we don't have any. That's why the things leaking in the first place, it's almost always dirt in a gasket surface that makes it leak. This was all freshly built before we got the truck and that's what we are supposing caused the leak. Very rarely you'll have a fit problem. There's a manufacturing imperfection in the axle housing or the gear carrier. Dan will be inspecting for that to make sure that's it's not a manufacturing defect.