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Don't need to pull motor to re-do seal...
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:27:14
In Reply to: Oil pump leak, DaleG, Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:54:04
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... as you probably know, tho it's a little bit of a project.
Use a cut-down socket (1 3/16" for an '88) in 1/2" drive with a long breaker bar and just touch the starter to crack the bolt free, don't crank it long.
It's all gonna be pretty clean still so it's lots less of a pain in the neck to be working down there and in such tight space.
The seal can be pulled and a new one put in with oil pump cover in place but it's lots easier to get the seal in straight with the cover off the motor again. The cover o-ring should still be in fine shape and resilient and I'd have no qualms about reinstalling the same one. Make sure of course that it didn't get cut because if it got out of its groove and the cover got tightened down on it, that could be the cause of your leak.
Not sure there's much difference at all between the Saab-offered seal and any other one but I'd be happier installing one that had a European industrial country's name on it. A little grease on its inner lip and motor oil on the pulley nose on reinstall so it slips thru easy.
The new pulley shouldn't have been the problem but take a real close look at it, bad products sometimes make it past quality control.
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