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Originally Posted by JM 35 Sedan
The tt seal in post #7 looks like it might run/seal at about center of coupler on the solid type driveshaft used in 38/39 to 48. It also looks like it could seal on the earlier tubular driveshafts but may require a slightly different seal inner diameter pressed into the seal mounting tube as shown in that picture. A very nice design but seems as though it would move the tt forward by the thickness of the flange and extra gasket. Maybe that's not an issue?
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It would move the rear backward by the thickness of the flange. There was a thread a while ago on the same topic. Richard Lacy posted that he had a customer who put a later rear into a '32 and then installed a similar seal. When he installed the seal, the banjo casting interfered with the rear crossmember. Turned out that when he installed the rear, he had the torque tube shortened to the same length as the original (early) '32 torque tube. Turns out that the banjo casting is about .40" longer on the later rears than the early. The suspension, etc was able to absorb the .40", but the additional .12" or so caused the interference.
Just found that old thread:
http://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showth...rque+tube+seal