Topic: SYE

[might4banger]

Hope you sealed the xfer case with anarobic sealer... RTV will squeeze ou and can starve the case for fluid.

I pulled mine and re-sealed b/c I used RTV... There was RTV stuck in the filter screen.

You can get anaroic sealer at NAPA... The way it works is that it only dries w/o oxygen.

[Bounty Hunter]

I read that in a mag once and I think it's mostly hype, as they're sealed with RTV from the factory, thousands of transfer cases.  Chances of RTV blocking the pickup screen are close to nil.

[might4banger]

Aren't you same guy that said main shaft breaks were rare? - JK  

For $15 I did not want to take a chance - all depends on how much you apply. Too much and it does ooze out.

I think we saw the same article - was it in JP?

[wrangler387]

of course if you put the improper amount of RTV you can have issues, just dont be dumb lol.

[Bounty Hunter]

Even when the RTV squeezes to the inside, it generally stays intact and does not make it to the pickup tube.  And I'm that same guy, never to take word for gospel just because it's printed in a rag :wink:

[Krod]

I am doing an Advance Adapters SYE with a Woods driveshaft today and will post pics when done.

On a 4 cylinder YJ?   I only ask because I'm doing the same thing over break and would like to have a ballpark driveshaft length when I call to order (the length to give to Tom Woods..not the overall ).   I'd measure myself, but we have 1/2 a foot of snow on the ground  :roll:

[rcopes]

I would have to go with might4banger, a sye from JB conversions is hard to beat for price and reliability. They have Super SYE if you need it.

[YJmechanic]

there is a alumn sealer that is supposed to be used on the 231 but if you look in the service manuals for different years, chrysler recommends rtv for some and alumn sealer for others and they all run the same case.  i recommend the alum sealer but the guy next to me uses rtv and neither of us has ever seen problems.