Oh darn... oil seal saga and an extra part
Phil Payne
quattro at isham-research.com
Sun Jan 18 12:10:15 EST 2004
> > After getting the TB on etc, I was about to throw away the old oil
> > seal... and realized there is a little round "spring" in there...
> > (insert expletive here) looking at a brand new spring sitting right
> > next to me... so how important is that spring in the oil seal... it
> > looks like it could be important... but I don't want to button up the
> > rest of the front end till I find out...
> >
> > my next problem is... which seal is it for (crank or cam!) I might
> > have to buy 2 new ones if my first guess isn't right. :(
>
> They both have one... but if it belonged to the cam seal, it probably
> popped off as you pushed the new seal on anyway.
My money is with Orin's - the cam seal is the usual culprit.
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Phil Payne
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