727 leak

["Chris Strohmeyer" <chrisstroh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is going to be hard to describe but here goes. On my 67 Imperial I have 
a leak at  just below the vertical surface that the tailshaft bolts to. It's 
a small space between the lower flange of the tailshaft and the TOP of the 
oil pan FLANGE. To see it you have to look from the back of the transmission 
looking forward. It's slightly off center of the tailshaft and where it's 
leaking appears to look like the end of a aprox 3/4" diameter shaft. Oil is 
seeping from this "shaft end". I've looked at the breakaway photos of the 
727 and see nothing that looks like this inside so my next step is to drain 
the tranny,pull the pan and see.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thx,
Chris Strohmeyer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: IML: power steering leak - O rings


> You can buy rebuild kits for the power steering pump that are really only 
> a seal kit. There is a big oring that seals the whole canister and a few 
> more seals for the shaft and the relief valve I think. Not that hard to 
> do.
>
> Robin Giesbrecht
> 72 Imperial
>
>
>>From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: IML: power steering leak  - O rings
>>Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:26:56 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>
>>
>>--- Chris Strohmeyer <chrisstroh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Kenyan said...........
>> >
>> > 4.  "Bad o-rings"?  Anyone else that works on cars
>> > where you live?  That sounds like bad advice to me,
>> > but it may be out of context and part of other info
>> > that he gave?
>> >
>> > Aren't there 1 or 2 large o rings on the power
>> > steering pump that seals the
>> > reservoir can?
>> >
>> > Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>True.  There are o-rings.  The way that the thing's
>>put together sorta precludes catastrophic fluid loss
>>as described in the letter posted here, but to address
>>the question:
>>
>>If I were going to pay a mechanic to deal with this, I
>>would buy a replacement pump unit that comes with a
>>warranty so that I didn't have to worry about it.
>>
>>Reason being that I don't agree with paying a mechanic
>>to only partially rebuild a pump for a labor charge
>>that could very likely equal or exceed the cost of a
>>replacement.  I would pay the rehab factory that will
>>give a warranty do that portion instead and get the
>>whole thing spec'd out by someone that does nothing
>>but.  That's what I'd do, anyway.
>>
>>Also, a failed O-ring seal is highly unlikely to cause
>>the sort of rapid fluid loss described, so that's what
>>I was thinking based on the info given, but I wasn't
>>there.
>>
>>
>>Please use an o in my name.  I'm particular about
>>that.
>>
>>
>>-Kenyon
>>
>>
>>