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Re: Rear Main Seal installation Tool? Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:38:44 In Reply to: Rear Main Seal installation Tool?, Jonathan Scupin [Profile/Gallery] , Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:33:32 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Anyone should have that tool in their tool box, don't they. Just kidding.
Looking at the PVC tool I don't think that really help for the initial real problem of saving the spring inside seal.
The biggest problem is to get the lip of the seal to start riding of the crank shaft surface instead of buckling up in front of the crank.
The crank is recessed enough so that the seal lip with not easily start to wander up on the shaft neck before the outer part of the seal hits the aluminum housing.
What I have heard other people do is to wrap some thin but sturdy plastic vinyl around the the crank shaft and place the seal over the "funnel" that the circular plastic creates.
Since the plastic is already outside of the crank but inside the aluminum housing and the lip of seal on the outside of the plastic, it will help the seal lip to slide over the crank neck.
When the seal is fully inserted, you carefully pull the plastic out and the lip falls down into place on the crank surface.
So that plastic is pretty much working as part of the tool in your picture with the three bolts since that's what that part do helping guiding the seal lip over onto the crank shaft.
So with the plastic guide and the PVC lid you might be able to do the work pretty good.
Anders
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