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Originally Posted by Dan Sicotte
Yes, sorry, I had a couple of little boys distracting me while I was typing.
The inner tracta joint on the right front is where the problem lies. I hear no noise while I drive, so it's not touching anything important....as if I could hear it anyway.
The obstruction has a 1/4 inch by 3/8 inch slot that seems to be a reciever for a male ended tool. I can't see the top end of the threads, so I think it's screwed in, but it's on there really tight. I tooled a piece of flatbar to try and remove it but it was no good....the flatbar is too soft, and it just rounds out of the slot.
I was thinking of drilling a 1/4 inch hole in it, to allow the fluids to drain. But I wanted to make sure with you REME types that it wasn't an emer Modification. Afterall, I am an ex-tanker.....Make it work!
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Dan,
I have to be honest, it is quite a while since I last withdrew an inner tracta housing, so cannot visualise it, but am now thinking that the slot is in fact a channel for the oil to transfer from bevel box to tracta and thus to drain plug. The inner tracta housing slides in at this point so this would make sense. Why not remove another of these plugs and check if oil comes out and what you can see in the hole. Is this is the wheel station you are suspecting a problem with?
Perhaps someone else could chime in here, who has done one more recently and can confirm if the slot is a drain or oil transfer channel?
Dan, just to add, I looked closely at the section drawing in EMER's and the slot looks to be in the bearing housing, something you do not see unless bevel box is totally stripped and am certain it is a transfer channel.............my feeling is that there is no oil in this bevel box. Quick test, squirt some diesel, paraffin or something light throught the filler hole to see if it runs out of the plug hole, cannot see what would have blocked it.