<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Crew,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">It was brought to my attention tonight that there are, in fact, TWO pinion seals on the type 3 automatic transmission. I wanted to gather thoughts from anyone daring enough to talk about it. I was going to skip the inner pinion seal when I put my transmission back together. I am not comfortable being able to put the differential back together with the correct backlash for the rig and pinion. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I also thought that since this particular seal is kept in a river of 80W90, it may be in far better shape than the outer pinion seal. I may just be being lazy. What do you guys think? Below is some of a conversation that is going on in my Samba thread about the topic.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">"<span style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: rgb(68,
68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">I would like to clarify that the seal referenced in your picture is NOT the seal I was concerned with when I was worried about the need to disassemble the differential. There is ANOTHER identical pinion seal at the other end of the pinion shaft. See seal #3 in figure 11-5 on page 32 of the automatic section of your Bentley. It IS necessary to remove item #19 (Differential Housing) and item #13 (Pinion) to change this seal. It IS NOT necessary to remove item #4 (bearing race) which was my concern. The seal OD is smaller than the race ID and can be replaced THROUGH the race. Figure 11-7 in the Bentley actually shows this seal being pried out of the Differential housing."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); font-style: normal;"><span
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