Should I be seeing wet, fresh oil on the gear selector shaft as it enters the rear of the M47 II transmission?

1991 (THE kittys) grey Volvo 240, M47 II, moon roof, 152xxx miles. My 240 babe.

The selector shaft is wet with oil and basted with road grime. I thought it the output flange seal and I went ahead and replaced the M47 II output flange seal, yet no fresh oil at where the seal lip meets the output flange. It appears that the old seal lip was worn where it met the output flange.

I succeeded in gouging the seal bore like some stupid puts of a schmuck like I did when on this same task on the 1992 240 GL sedan last year. So far, it does not leak transmission fluid out that 1992 240 GL M47 II rear. (I used the same RTV on the seal bore and seal exterior after sanitizing all with brake parts cleaner.)

Both have the Amsoil Super Shift® Racing Transmission Fluid SAE 10W (ARTQT-EA) - a Ford "Type F" and Alison C-4 compliant synthetic fluid so describes the advert copy. Yes, I know I should use the Volvo OEM PN "1161645" fluid for M47 II, later M46, and so forth per brickboard and turbobricks member vvpete.

I'm also replacing the drive shaft flex coupler. The one I have has some serious rips well into the material. The damned car has 152k and I drive the thing like a little old man from Pasadena. Gently. And yet all of you seem to go with your 240s with like a trillion miles with few such bothers. Seriously, I spend more time working on these cars then driving them. It gets sucky and $$$.

It appears oil comes out of the hole where that the single gear selector shaft moves in and out of as you change gears, bastes the gear selector shaft, hits the flex coupler, and bastes the transmission cross member in trans oil. The engine barely leaks oil. I did have to replace the timing cover gasket and front engine seals in the last 18 months. That is all clean and bone dry at the engine front.

I've not driven the beast in any long highway excursions since 2011, most unfortunately. That is why I have these cars, to pound the I-90 and I-5 concrete with Nordic RWD Volvo motoring relentlessness on long drives as a middle finger to suffering a new car payment I can't really afford anyway.

I'll top up and overfill the M47 II oil with the remaining Amsoil Super Shift I have today.

Hopefully, in spite of gouging the aluminum housing seal journal bore, the clean up and RTV makes up for it. Be nice to have a seal press for this seal. I'm not so good with a PCV section as a press. I can't get it straight except after many ties and then I'm not so sure. Made a mess with the RTV last night. Probably should have used something other than the Permatex Ultra Grey.

The Haynes 140 series manual shows a cutaway of the M40 transmission. The stupid Haynes 240 manual has no manual transmission cutaway views, so I dunno what seals that gear selector shaft inside the M47 II.

Stupid Haynes. Times for the 240 Bentley and the Volvo OEM Factory Green manuals again. I keep losing these, stupidly.

Frustrating.

Thank you for the insight.

Leaky M47 II Transmission? MacDuff.
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