Today I worked some more on trying to replace the rear output seal on the np205. I say trying, because I took all of the bolts off that hold the housing that the seal sits in off after removing the output yoke and the housing wouldn't come off. I tried hitting it with a rubber mallet, tapping with a small hammer, and then hitting it with a piece of wood with a BFH. None of those worked and it was getting cold and late for doing it in the driveway. So I decided to pack up and call it for the night. I would use a torch to heat it to separate the two, but the transfer case is covered with a thick layer of grease/oil from the transmission that used to leak. I guess I should have had the shop replace the transfer case seals at the same time as the transmission seals.

 

I would hit it with some fire....that oil and grease might burn a bit, but it's cold enough that the likely hood of the fire getting out of control is pretty slim.

 

like one of our maintenance guys at work likes to say..."what could go wrong?"

 

.....Exactly, got to be willing to roll the dice.

 

I would have both a dry chem extinguisher and a garden hose close by. The former in case you set the grease or other petroleum material on fire and the latter for the ordinary combustibles that may catch fire. Sorry guys, you can take the boy out of firefighting, but you can't take the firefighting out of the boy. Also, to quote fireman Bill: "sometimes I think I am just talking to myself" ...Mark AKA fireman Bill

 

You don't say???

 

Yup, that's me in my younger and prettier days...Mark

 

Well, I ended getting it off with a more determined blow with a 2x4 and bfh. I then spent about an hour last night scraping the old gasket off of both surfaces and trying to scrub off the baked on grease and dirt off of the output yoke and small housing with some mean green and a small brush. I got the grease off the slide portion of the output yoke, but the rest is being VERY stubborn. I think I'm just going to make sure the contact surfaces are nice and clean an put it back together. Then I'll go get some foaming engine decreased and go at it with the pressure washer. I need to do the same with my engine bay also.

 

I find that a screw driver or an ice pick are good choices for the road concrete that builds up on our truck...Mark

 

It was oil service time...330,000+ km's. Trying something different this year. I filled a new oil filter with a litre of fresh oil and changed out the one on the motor. Since I'm running the Rotella T6 5W40 for the winter I thought I would change the oil filter at 5000km's and run the oil until spring.....was -20*C here last night and snowing.

 

It was almost 90F here in beautiful SoCal of the United Police States of America. Wind straight out of the desert. At least I didn't hear about any wildfires. Tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter and windier.

I don't blame you for not wanting to crawl around under your truck in those temps though.

 

We have been running 10-15 degrees above normal since September, which is great right now. It is not going to be so great when we are at 100 degrees in April. Politics aside, it is getting hotter at a horrifying rate. Our record high is 122 degrees, set in 1990. Since then, we have been within 3 degrees of that a half dozen times. Our record high-low is 96 degrees and we have been at or near that a half dozen times since then. I personally like the heat, but, I was lucky enough to get radiated for cancer, which stuck my thermostat (thyroid gland) in the cold position. If you want to have some real fun, come climb Piestawa peak with me, in the afternoon, in Phoenix, in the summer. It separates the sane from the insane ...Mark

 

Cold enough for your pee to freeze as it's landing on the ground, eh ?

 

So I was running along a back road in Kino and I ran (literally) into this. I think they were waiting for me, but am not sure. I just hope the they don't take the old joke attitude: Patience to heck, I'm gonna' kill something ...Mark

 

sure it wasn't Nancy Pelosi's "old buzzards" cheering squad ???