Axle Gasket Part No. X-ref

[MyothersanM1]

Anyone have a NAPA part no. cross referenced for 5-ton rear axle gaskets (7979275). Thanks in advance.

 

[M543A2]

We have had good luck with putting a bead of RTV gasket sealer around the part, letting it set up a bit, then assembling the parts with no gasket.
You can also make a gasket if you need to with a sheet of gasket paper, scissors, and a ball-pein hammer.
These are expediency methods if you do not find the number!
Regards Marti

 

[rosco]

A standard material for axle gaskets is a common magazine cover. Use a ball-pein hammer. None of the "old time" mechanics that I grew up around, spent good money for gasket material, that was plentiful in the bathroom library rack!

Lee in Alaska

 

[powerhouseduece]

I either throw the old gasket out and use RTV or if the axle or outer flange are scored then ill reuse the old gasket and just add a good coating of RTV on both sides of the gasket. Mine has been like that for 8 months and ain't had a problem. I'll do it all over again before my next 4 wheeling trip.

 

[crasheej]

Come on now let's act like we were out in the wilds and need to get it fixed and get the h-ll out of dodge. make one.
get the job done.

 

[808pants]

Well, I've got lots of colorful old magazines to use or even some rosin-paper (and even an arch-punch set) but I'm thinking I'm gonna go with just RTV using the partially-cured-bead method. My reasoning is that all four of the rear hubs were weeping oil slightly at that joint, from well before I decided to pull all the wheels for some major brake work. On investigation (pulling the drive hubs), all the paper gaskets were brittle to the point where I could only get one out whole, and likely all the others were cracked through before I got to them.

In retrospect, this all seems as it might be expected to be: there's no sealant, a nonresilient paper gasket, and some huge adjacent stresses, which collectively seem like a recipe for leakage. Even if it's just an annoying weeping, it seems unnecessary. Past experience disassembling similar joints that I had made with RTV in lieu of a gasket resulted in some very thin, intact, consistent-thickness RTV versions of the gaskets I would have otherwise had to make out of paper - and not had the speed, flexibility, nor sealing qualities of the RTV. I don't see a downside other than that it's not a "traditional or authentic" method, if that's of concern.

 

[crasheej]

If that is what you eant to do go for it. One of the reason the military used the gasket was all the wheels were going to be pulled yaerly like the LO says.