At 10:16 AM 11/15/03 -0500, Greg Schluge wrote:
>I have been stopping oil leaks in my 76 for two years now. Slowly but surely
>I have plugged them up. The last leak was the rear seal. I pulled the engine
>and found that the seal was pushed all the way to the crank face of the seal
>plate, and the seal spring jumped off the seal lip and was laying on the
>crank. The previous owner said that he had rebuilt this engine. It has good
>compression, end play is .004 inch. Good compression, Runs smooth at 70
MPH.
>
>Well I put a new seal in and all leaks were stopped for one month, now it is
>back worse than ever, 1 qt per 40 miles. I expect that the seal ring jumped
>off again. I am going to pull the engine and see if the crank seal surface
>has any runout. Any other suggestions while I have it on the bench?
Greg,
Try checking with the various vendors and see if you can find a "wear
sleeve".
Check out my article on my Voyager mini van:
http://www.allpar.com/fix/3liter-timing-belts.html
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948@cox.net
Va. Beach, Va (eBay id: zebra48-1)
Phone: (757) 495-8229
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75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887) 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
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