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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 97 19:19:41 UT
From: "Larry G. Miller" <millerls@classic.msn.com>
Subject: RE: FW: oil leaks
Ulix
Yes I install the rear main seal and yes I kind of did it myself. I pulled
the engine and bolted the rear main cap and the new rear main cover from the
kit to the block. I then took the block to a machine shop and had the cap and
cover machined to be perfectly flush with each other and perfectly flat. Well
I still have a drip about the same as before. So, No, In my case it was not
worth it. I have received mail from team thicko that installed it on a race
engine and had good luck. They did it by hand fitting using a belt sander. I
beleive that getting a rear main to not leak is all about luck and how the
original cap was machined or by whom it was machined or on what day of the
week it was machined. I have done many spridget engines and maybe 1 out of 3
does not leak and the other two will. Les Meyer's article is very good but my
bet is that the results are not always repeatable.
Larry
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From: Ulix Goettsch
Sent: 17 October, 1997 10:33 AM
To: Larry G. Miller
Subject: RE: FW: oil leaks
Les Meyer, author of the PDLJMPR (or however that is spelled) Spridget web
page, claimes to have built a no-leak engine. He explaines how in his
tech tips. Maybe we should ask him if it is still a no-leak engine..:)
Larry, it sounds like you have installed the rear mein seal kit. Did you
do it yourself? How difficult is it? Would you recommend it?
Ulix
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