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Dressing the axel shaft!

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Rob

06-20-2003 11:52:47




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This is taking forever because this axel is really big and really hard!
Any body have a new, high-tech, easy, and fast way short of taking it into a shop to be turned?
I've burned 3+ hours and 3+ yards of emory cloth getting the seal score off these shafts.
Boring!




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Hobo,NC

06-20-2003 16:48:35




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 Re: Dressing the axel shaft! in reply to Rob, 06-20-2003 11:52:47  
what I try to do when I have that problem is to reposition the seal. I take a hole saw about the O.D. of the seal then trim the I.D. to the seal and cut a ot. oil can, Its about .035 or a five gal. bucket (.090) and install the shim before the seal and then drive in the seal. works out good most of the time. The input shaft on my N was worn were the seal runs and that is how I repaired it. On some truck seals I remove the spring in the seal and cut some out of it and reinstall. always do it on GM 1/2 ton truck rear axle seals.

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Rob

06-20-2003 17:55:48




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 Re: Re: Dressing the axel shaft! in reply to Hobo,NC, 06-20-2003 16:48:35  
Shimming that seal to move it is pretty slick, thanks. That's probably what I should do. I should have done that this morning.
On that shorten the spring thing, does that make the seal ID tighter? It just a tighter seal in the same grove? Is that the idea or what?
This grove isn't very deep. It's almost gone but dang it takes a LOT of doing. It's not like I'm having to remove so much mat'l from the shaft, the axel is just such really hard metal. It doesn't come off easy.

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Hobo,NC

06-21-2003 04:13:58




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 Re: Re: Re: Dressing the axel shaft! in reply to Rob, 06-20-2003 17:55:48  
Thats the idea. First try it on the old seal spring.



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markct

06-20-2003 12:28:11




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 Re: Dressing the axel shaft! in reply to Rob, 06-20-2003 11:52:47  
can ya put a speedy sleeve on it, they are available from napa or most industrial supply places. they are basicly a thin stainless sleeve that ya press over the original shaft and give the seal a smooth place to ride, if your shaft is so scored that a couple hours of emery wouldnt clean it up then i think a speedy sleeve is the way to go. i have used them on the wheel seals of heavy construction equipment and they work great

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Rob

06-20-2003 12:56:06




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 Re: Re: Dressing the axel shaft! in reply to markct, 06-20-2003 12:28:11  
This score wasn't any worse then usual. Most of it came out fine but the last little bit, a few pits, and it's slow....real hard metal and slow.
If it was any bigger axel shaft I wouldn't even bother. I'd get one of those sleeves you are talking about.
I probably should have split the emory cloth so I wouldn't have to sand such a wide area. An inch wide isn't much on cold rolled or even hot rolled but this hard axel....boy it takes a lot of elbow grease.
Pressed on? End up waiting on a shop anyway.

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