Sentences with phrase «leaking gear oil»
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There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.
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You may have a leaking input shaft seal on the transmission that is contaminating the clutch plate with gear oil, causing slippage under load.