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Tranmission fluid leaking from yolk?

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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeD.
Mine was leaking really bad after my 80e swap in my NBS. After looking over everything, looks like it was a leaky soft plug on the back of the yoke. I RTV'd the **** out of it, and it seems to have solved the issue. Ill be pulling it now and having it welded up, because the RTV is hideous.



Can anything bad happening by having it covered with rtv ?
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Old Aug 1, 2016 | 09:52 PM
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It won't hurt anything at all...but I would welderup!

RT
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Old Aug 2, 2016 | 12:10 AM
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Its alot better/cleaner to use 5 min epoxy..put it in threw the inside of the yoke
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Old Aug 13, 2016 | 02:40 PM
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After I rebuilt my trans had a small leak from the tail shaft had a seal in it like the one in the picture, replaced it with the booted style like truck had stock.
no more leak
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