Neil A. Kruiswyk wrote:

    I wounldn't recomend drilling a hole anywhere inside the Ross gear set.
There are lots of spaces here and there for oil (and preasure) to escape.
The gear box doesn't leak without a good reason.  Look for problems
elsewhere.

    Certianly one place to look is over preasurizing the gear box.  Oil is
usually feed with a 1/8th line from the engine but this is far too much and
requires a restrictor of some sort.  A 40 thousand or 32 thousand orifice
somewhere in the feed line is what is recomended.  The return line back to
the oil pan should be 3/8th line and should drain completely by gravity.

    Also,  I accidentally damaged the oil seal behind the sun gear by trying
to pull the gear box off, bell housing and all.  The sun gear was kind of
stuck in the flex plate spline and as I was pulling and twisting, the sun
gear teeth marked up the oil seal.  The mark was barely perceptable by
looking at it but sure enough, it leaked.  I replaced the seal, and not a
drop since.

Neil

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