New fluid can help, too. Additives that make the seals swell and/or remain pliable were probably long gone from the fluid that was in it.
Pinion seals aren’t hard to do, it’s more of a PITA to drop the drive shaft to get to them. -D > On Mar 28, 2020, at 3:40 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Changed out the diff fluid on the $600E300. Was nasty. Was not hard to get > the plugs out. Looks like the pinion seal is leaking. Looks like a PITA to > get the diff dropped and out so I think I’ll just live with it. Diff seemed > to be fairly full so I guess not too much has leaked. > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
