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Posted by David Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Thursday, October 01, 2009 at 02:36:32 :
In Reply to: speedy sleeve ? posted by roger king [206.74.195.79] on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 20:57:27 :
Mark with a felt pen on the yoke where the back edge of the sleeve should go, so you don't drive it on too far. There's no way to back it off if you go too far. The lip of the seal should ride near the middle of the sleeve. The driving flange can usually be left on. The other trick is smear a little non-hardening gasket sealer on the yoke. This will make the sleeve slide on more smoothly and will prevent any chance of a leak under the sleeve.
$40 sounds steep to me. As I recall, the sleeves I've bought tend to run around half that from a local bearing house.
All in all, it's an easy fix and one that will work well. Probably best put in a fresh seal while you're at it. Make sure the hollow side points inward (towards the oil).
"Equivalent" seals don't always have the contact point of the lip in the same place as the originals, so it would be wise to install the new seal first and then position the sleeve accordingly, rather than position it centered over the old wear groove and then find out that the new seal's lip hits the yoke in a different place. I've actually used that variation to advantage when I found that the lip of a new seal would land on a smooth part of the shaft rather than on the old wear groove -- thus no need to sleeve it at all. This was on an M35 front axle shaft where I would have had to make a sleeve driver about 3' long to install a sleeve.