Muttstang

[Cris@JCG]

Ron- Congrats on the Optima invite!... It was great meeting you @ Motorstate & getting to see your car in person.. See ya @ SEMA!

[Bucketlist2012]

Incredible..

[Matt@BOS]

Ron, I've been checking in on your car over on PT.com for the last couple years. It definitely inspired me to start hacking up my '65. If you ever look at mine one day and think that they look similar it's because I "borrowed" some ideas.

Congrats on the Optima invite!

Matt

[DTM Racing]

Originally Posted by 57hemicuda

Thanks, I was totally blown away when I got the invite, there was so many REALLY nice cars there at Motorstate. My 3.18 rear gear experiment was a total fail. The car was so unhappy with the rear swap it performed terribly, either I was lugging the engine in 3rd, or blowing the tires off in 2nd.

I've got some work to do before Vegas, but I can't wait. I've been wanting to do SEMA since I was 16, and beleive it or not I've never been to Vegas. It should be a hoot.

You will have an absolute blast. Congrats and good luck!

[nvr2fst]

Congrats Ron on the invite. The Muttstang is one of my favorite builds on Lat G.
Youve taken that car to extreme levels in style and performance!

[57hemicuda]

Don't know if anyone else that is running a full floating rear is experiencing the same issues I am. It seems the inner axle seals just won't stop leaking. These rears are unique in the fact that you pack the outer wheel bearings with grease, and seal the gear oil in the center section. They don't want the gear oil getting to the wheel bearings and cleaning the grease out of them. I have replaced the grease seals 3 times, and they just let the oil leak into the wheel bearings constantly.

It was so bad that on my AMX rear I machined the inside of the axle tubes to except Dana 44 front inner axle seals. Figured that is what the OEM did and it should work, but that didn't fix my Mustang.

On the Mustang I vented the center section, and each individual axle tube thinking they were building pressure blowing past the seals, didn't help. Glued the aluminum seal housing in place thought maybe it was leaking past the O rings, didn't help.

Several calls, and a bunch of investigation later this is what I found. Due to the cambered axles, Nascar uses these funky seals that have the ability to seal even when there is a fair amount of misalignment. It is a dual seal, in which you pack between the two seals with axle grease, installed them today, they seem really nice, will let you know how it goes.

http://www.sealsit.com/specs/axlehub.pdf

[GregWeld]

Did you put them deep into the axle tube as shown in the diagram - or leave them out at the end of the housing?

[57hemicuda]

The aluminum seal housing has a shoulder on it, so the seal housing goes in until it hits the shoulder then won't go in anymore. Its pretty idiot proof, even for me.

[GregWeld]

I love products like that!!


LOL

[CURVES]

Thanks for sharing, nice to know before I install mine.