Chris,
A common SPOT (...that's :"SMART" Previous Owner Trick) is to remove the
seal retainer and re-install it on the front side of the cover. I used
appropriate size screws/nuts/loctite. This has two distinct advantages:
1. You can now change the front seal by just removing the crank pulley...no
need to remove the front cover!
2. The seal will ride on a fresh, un-worn section of the crank, making a
better seal.
JT/ric
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Oles [mailto:chris_oles@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:13 PM
To: lro-digest@works.team.net
Subject: LRO: front cover oil seal -- I need some direction
Today I was changing the timing chain and the other bits and decided to
replace the oil seal in the front cover while I was in there. Glad I did to
because when I was trying to remove the old one, it crumbled to pieces! It
was baked onto the cover and after much scraping got it all cleaned up.
Then while trying to drift the new seal into place with a block of wood and
a mallot, the front cover seal retaining piece popped off of its rivets and
the whole assembly came out. Then I found that I was attempting to drift
the seal into another bronze-type bushing (left over part from old seal?)
and now I'm not sure what I should do. Couple of Q's at this point:
1) Can I drill out the rivet bodies and use small, long screws and bolts
with loctite to keep it all together or should I go back with rivets
(assuming that I can find some that are long enough), or maybe a new front
cover is in order (God, I hope not).
2) Oil seal: The bronze bushing that was left in there; is it possibly
part of the old seal (an original style seal maybe...)? If so, then I have
to assume that the new replacement seal will fit snug in the hole in the
cover against that plate that fell off. Right? The manual isn't
super-explicit in this area.
Thanks and oh, BTW, this is on a 2.25 for a 70 SIIa 88.
Chris
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