My rover is into leather....

This here's the new pinion seal -poised and ready to stop the gl-4 from pouring out.  This is supposed to be a 1/2 hour job with everything going right- well that didn't happen.

Here's the  old seal- and thats one dead cow!  It's a leather ring stuck in a metal sleeve.  This harkens back to the days of leather head gaskets and non greedy oil companies. 

OK- so the drive flange was pitted at the seal - REALLY BAD.  I did this on the front swivels and it worked- why not the flange??  So the pits were sprayed with dupli color ceramic engine paint, and after that dried it was sanded down smooth with 1000 grit sandpaper. It took out 95% of the pits