The groove in the pulley, caused by wear from the oil seal, can be a
problem. The new seal may not be able to seal over this irregularity. Only
way to find out is to install it and see. You can try the trick of seating
the seal at a slightly different position in the housing hoping it won't
ride in the detent. When I inquired a couple of years ago, there wasn't a
speedy sleeve for this pulley. Ended up buying an aftermarket pulley at
something like $60 from BP. OEM pulley was way more expensive. Your
choice, take the chance on a leak from reusing it or replacing it. I
elected to change it as changing the seals on my transfer case output
shafts, which were grooved, didn't cure the leaking from there. As I
recall, changing the seals didn't change the rate of leakage much at all.
The leakage is relatively minimal, however, so I haven't put speedy sleeves
on these shafts.
Aloha
Peter
>From: "Garrick Olsen" <gbolsen@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
>To: lro@Land-Rover.Team.Net, tim@skyrover.net
>Subject: LRO: Timing chain cover
>Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:31:30 -0500
>
>I can't get the bl**dy thing off!
>
>I have the pulley off (nice groove in the shaft. Is that a problem?) and
>the bolts all around and the oil pan off. The front cover to the water
>pump
>is off, too. Some of the water pump cover studs are in place and seem to
>be
>fused.
>
>There are two threaded ends poking out of the timing chain cover: one at
>the
>bottom left facing left and one at the bottom right facing forward. What
>are these for? Winch drive mounting?
>
>So far I have tried:
>banging around with a hammer and mallet.
>Prying between the water pump and head.
>prying between the gen bracket and the strange threaded end pointing left.
>Sprayed with liquid wrench.
>
>What works?
>
>-Rik
>1960 SWB SW
>
>It seems like there are two seasons: storage and repair.
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