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tree98 · 08-09-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

This is on a log truck, it gets worked pretty hard. Do you happen to have any pictures of your cracked housing?

Hammerhead · 08-10-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

(08-09-2019 )tree98 Wrote: This is on a log truck, it gets worked pretty hard. Do you happen to have any pictures of your cracked housing?

Gonna have to go looking. I thought I posted them in my thread

tree98 · 08-10-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

(08-10-2019 )Hammerhead Wrote:
(08-09-2019 )tree98 Wrote: This is on a log truck, it gets worked pretty hard. Do you happen to have any pictures of your cracked housing?

Gonna have to go looking. I thought I posted them in my thread

I didn't see any

Hammerhead · 08-11-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

(08-10-2019 )tree98 Wrote: I didn't see any

I threw the cracked housing away when I moved in the spring, so this is all I have for pics...

This was clearly a crack, but I couldn't find a penetration to the oil rifle. There was obviously a leak directly from the oil rifle cavity somewhere, but I could pinpoint it. The leak increased dramatically from a sweat to a leak when I shimmed my oil pump, so it was rather conclusive that was where it had to be coming from. I inspected the gasket, the housing, and the block and could not find a stain showing where the gasket was leaking. Starlight stopped by my shop when I was just finishing up, and he agreed that it didn't appear that my gasket had failed, so I'm fairly certain it leaked via the cracks.

Not all of these ^ are cracks, but it shows the poor quality of this particular casting IMHO.

This was a distinct crack. It was visible both front and back, straight horizontal from the bolt hole going right.

tree98 · 08-11-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

Wow, I hope I don't run into this. Mine isn't leaking yet so maybe there is hope.

Hammerhead · 08-11-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

(08-11-2019 )tree98 Wrote: Wow, I hope I don't run into this. Mine isn't leaking yet so maybe there is hope.

I'm sure you're fine.
I'm quite certain I know exactly when this happened:dodgy:
There's an over beer story about it...you're in PA right?

Rawze · 08-12-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

(08-11-2019 )Hammerhead Wrote: ...
There's an over beer story about it...you're in PA right?

I wonder when your going to come this way for a week or so?. You have been saying it for years now.

08-12-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

yes hammer, when you going to go see rawze?

the missing link · 08-12-2019, **(Subject: 870 flywheel housing )**

Yeah , hammer