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Posted by coflyboy on October 11, 2006 at 09:25:50 from (70.58.168.220):
When I bought my Ford 641 the guy I bought it from said 'Had the tractor for a lot of years. The differential housing is defective and it leaks bad. Runs good, just keep oil in it and it will do fine'. I looked under the differential and there was about 2" of grease/dirt/crud there so I believed him. 80W-90 is cheap, only $47.00 for 5 gallons. LOL. Because of all this I got the tractor cheap. Yesterday I decided I had to know where that leak was. Scraped and Gunked it good. Noticed the nut holding the exhaust pipe to the differential was finger loose. Being a curious kind of guy, I checked the rest of the nuts holding the left axle housing to the differential. All but three were just finger tight. Torqued those suckers down and no more leak. Ya gotta wonder, how does that all happen.
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