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| | | | Joined: May 2008 Posts: 210 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2008 Posts: 210 | Okay the universal saga continues. Nothing is ever easy. I bought a gasket kit from Jim Carter. It came with a bunch of paper gaskets, cork gasket and felt seal/gasket. Now I put one paper gasket between the universal cover and the transmission but there is a little gap in there still. The kit came with about 6 of this same gasket but I assumed that they would be for a larger truck also that had muliple universals. Was I supposed to use all these paper gaskets? I've never heard of putting more than one paper gasket side by side. Does much oil splash out of the transmission into the universal joint area? Will I end up with an oil leak in this area? I am not taking the universal back out so I might just loosen it off and use gasket maker in there. (That is after I drill out the bolt I broke off in there ARRRRRG!) | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | Actually, the gaskets are supposed to stack up until there's a slight clearance between the bell and the cover. It's not uncommon to have to use more than one, kind of like setting the worm gear bearing preload on a steering gear by adding or removing a series of thin gaskets. The side clearance on Ford banjo housing rear axles are set the same way, with single gaskets of variable thickness. If you need to add more gaskets, you don't have to pull the torque tube again. Just make a diagonal cut at the top of the gasket, slip it over the bell, and dab a bit of #2 Permatex at the cut site for sealing.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 | The gaskets are there so You can set the spacing and the fit between the bowl part and the trans ball part it is explaned in the shop manual I used 3 of them to get the proper fit , it is a friction fit to seal things up and allow them to move up and down as Your driving .Get a hold of a shop manual or there are places on the web You can read them for free it will explane how it is set , You put them in one at a time until it does not fall on it's own, it has to do with the cork seal in the bowl part .You'll see in the manual .
Pete | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | The Universal Joint Ball Adjustment, as Pete says, is found in the Shop Manual. It is not in the Universal Joint section; it is in the Transmission section. The cork oil-seal should not be in place before starting the shim/gasket adjustment procedure. As has been noted in other discussions on this topic, different u-joint-cover gasket sets come with a different number (and different thicknesses) of shims/gaskets. The sets with more shims/gaskets (and, thinner shims) allow for a better adjustment. | | |
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