Leaking Rear Main Oil seal on 5KCSQ

[auditude at cox.net]

Adam Jansen aedan1 at hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Now that I have replaced the clutch and (thanks to the list) got my
> car (87 5KCSQ) running again, it is leaking oil like a seive!
>
> Needless to say it didn't do this before I replaced the rear main oil
> seal when I did the clutch (Should have left well enough alone!)....
>
> So did I just not seat the seal far enough?  I cant imagine it being
> anything else...

This is something that I feared, and still do, on my 5kcstq.

What did you use to drive the new seal in?  I think one possible cause would be if it wasn't "square", or
perfectly perpendicular to the crank.  That's a guess.

Ken