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D20 Front Yoke Oil Seal Replacement - Mystery Gasket

Discussion in 'Intermediate CJ-5/6/7/8' started by rusty72cj5, Sep 6, 2020.

  1. Sep 6, 2020
    rusty72cj5

    rusty72cj5 Member

    Florida
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    Back with another question. Replaced my front yoke oil seal on my '72 cj5 D20. When I removed everything, the order coming out was felt seal, oil seal, and then a thin gasket. The thin gasket didn't look bad and one didn't come with my seal kit, so I put it back in first and drove in the new oil seal on top of it how it was originally, then the felt seal and yoke. Net result is the felt seal will be flush against the new oil seal. Upon looking at the TSM and some of the smaller diagrams, it seems like maybe the gasket was put in first incorrectly to begin with (or the TSM is wrong...I have a reprint) and it may need to go between the felt seal and the oil seal. I can’t seem to even find this gasket. I didn’t think a gasket like that was designed to spin against anything anyway. Is this some legacy gasket that stopped being used eventually? Do I need to take things apart and do it over? Some diagrams online don't even show this gasket that I can tell. Weird. One other note. Reassembled, it is a little more difficult to turn. Not crazy tough, but a little noticeable. Probably just new seal and re-torque of the bolt I guess.
     
  2. Sep 6, 2020
    jpflat2a

    jpflat2a what's that noise?

    Hermosa, SD
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    The old style seal set-up was the three piece like you have.
    Felt, seal, and gasket.
    Later it became the one piece seal.
    Lots of us still like the 3 piece set-up.
     
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