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Originally Posted by killer69
The Speedtech/Chicane set up also uses in inner axle seal so the tubes are Dry, no gear oil in the axle tubes. makes things alot cleaner when servicing.
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Blake,
Be very cautious with the axle tube seals. We lost a 3rd member in the race car using these. We tried several brands of seal and even a couple different types of axles. All sized properly, but in the end all they ended up doing was trapping the lube in the tube once it got past the seal and didn't allow it to get back into the sump. I had multiple conversations with people and found a lot of similar feed back. Obviously since my application was circle track the right axle tube was the culprit. I'm not sure you will see this in the Pro-Touring/Track Day venue, but it is worth looking into. I would hate to see you deal with come backs over burned up gear sets! In the end we just ran a slightly higher oil level in the rear and made sure we had good o-rings on the hub seals. Never had an issue after that. (Obviously this was a standard design floater) All in all it was about a $2K lesson between broken parts and test pieces trying to solve the problem. Hope this helps some.
