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So had a leaking pinion seal and wanted to replace it.

Couple questions:


Do you guys use loc-tite on the pinion nut?

Brand new my pinion nut came with what seems to be red paint/thread locker on it already.

And what would cause a pinion nut to lose its preload?
When I removed the pinion nut it was loose, I applied proper preload when I assembled it a few months back so I'm not sure why the bearings lost preload. They appears to be perfectly fine.

Thanks [patriot]

[ April 15, 2011, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: 90FoX ]
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I have only seen that happen when either a crush sleeve was reused .

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Had a brand new crush sleeve in there [Confused] oh well its back together now...time will tell [patriot]
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