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#Post#: 72562-------------------------------------------------- |
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Question for Albert Ross,5 bearing crank oil seal. |
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By: leafer109 Date: August 29, 2013, 4:16 am |
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Mr Ross you may or may not remember speaking to me at leafers |
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about the 5 bearing rear crank oil seal and advising me to |
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silicon seal the when fitting the seal. Now I have only done a 3 |
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bearing in the past and could not visualise what you meant at |
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the time , anyway now that I have had a chance to have a look at |
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my parts manual I can now see the rear oil seal goes in the fly |
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wheel housing and that there is an o ring seal as well . Do I |
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silicon "in" both seals or just the main oil seal? |
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#Post#: 72571-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Question for Albert Ross,5 bearing crank oil seal. |
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By: Snailer Date: August 29, 2013, 5:45 am |
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good question and one I also want to know, I am losing loads of |
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oil this way. |
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#Post#: 72645-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Question for Albert Ross,5 bearing crank oil seal. |
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By: Albert Ross Date: August 29, 2013, 1:29 pm |
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Can of worms. |
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Two pictures... they might help. |
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1255486_1015156311169530… |
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1229960_1015156311155530… |
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Right. Remove the housing from the block, and remove the seals |
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from the housing. Clean and use a spirit degreaser to remove all |
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traces of oil from the seal fitting areas. Fit the main lipped |
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seal dry to the housing, but lightly smear the seal lip with LM |
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grease. As for the O ring on the inner face, the groove needs to |
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be clean, oil free and dry. A light smear of silicon in the |
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groove, and pop the seal into the groove. As you squish it into |
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the groove, the silicon will squidge out. You will see the |
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mating faces of the two parts (the housing and the block) Make |
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certain you have smeared a thin to medium coating of silicon on |
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the edges of the clean areas that touch between the two. (You |
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can see the slightly rusty outline on the housing-clean this |
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before silicon and fitting) The reason for this can be seen in |
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the pics above, as you can see, oil is resting on the block, and |
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this is one place it leaks out. Make sure the crank rear web |
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seal running face is clean, rust, and groove free. A deep groove |
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means that the seal won't seal, if you get me. Hope all of this |
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helps. |
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#Post#: 72671-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Question for Albert Ross,5 bearing crank oil seal. |
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By: leafer109 Date: August 29, 2013, 3:32 pm |
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Yes much clearer now , thank you very much Mr Ross. |
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#Post#: 72675-------------------------------------------------- |
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Re: Question for Albert Ross,5 bearing crank oil seal. |
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By: parksy64 Date: August 29, 2013, 3:41 pm |
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I'll be having me a bit of that too- cheers :thumbs: |
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