Posted by JRSutton on April 04, 2012 at 04:15:40 from (75.130.109.233):
In Reply to: All tractors leak? posted by Yooper Farmall on April 03, 2012 at 12:59:38:
Just look at any oil seal on the tractor and you can see that it's only really designed to keep MOST of the oil in. In fact, the seal itself needs a little oil seapage to keep from burning out from friction.
If stopping all leaks completely was the ideal, they'd at least be double lipped seals, or use some kind of packing.
So right from the design stage they weren't supposed to be perfect.
Then, over time, the metal the seal rides on eventually wears into a little groove and the seal becomes a little less effective. You can put a new seal on, but because of the decreased diameter that it rides on it's going to be less effective than the original.
So - bottom line is - yes it's ok to leak. New seals can make it better, and if you've got things apart, why not. But I wouldn't start taking things apart just to stop a leak somewhere unless it was so bad it was costing you real money.
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