<jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
news:b8784p$jba$1@bent.twistedbits.net...
>
> "Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote:
> [...]
> : When you do it, I'd also highly
> : recommend that you get yourself some 1/8" cork sheet or some paper
gasket
> : material and make your own gasket. That crap about using just the
permatex
> : is ridiculous, it always leaks. This is the first vehicle that I've had
or
> : any of my friends have had that doesn't use a gasket....
>
>
> That hasn't been my experience - I recently changed the fluid
> in both diffs on my Ram. It wasn't leaking before, and there wasn't
> a gasket in either diff - just RTV. I scraped off the old RTV,
> cleaned it off the cover with a wire wheel but just used a scraper
> on the diff itself; I didn't even do a super job of it. ;-) I
> didn't use anything special like the Right Stuff or anything, just
> a tube of red RTV I had laying around. No leaks yet!
>
I spent all sorts of time cleaning the mating surfaces and using a nice bead
ot rtv, it still leaked. took it a few weeks, but it worked it's way thru.
no problems whatsoever with the paper gasket I made though. I guess it's
your technique Jon. You must show me the ways obi-wan.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
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