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Re: Rear main seal

To: "Jack I. Brooks" <brooks@belcotech.com>
Subject: Re: Rear main seal
From: "George P. Richardson" <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 20:33:38 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "Triumph mailing list" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
I understood that the crankshaft has spirals cut into it to push the oil
back into the engine while it's running. If that's the case and you put a
rubber seal around it, it'll just get cut to ribbons.

George Richardson
'57 TR3, TS15559L
(getting ready to paint - and now on the web!)
http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm



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