Oh darn... oil seal saga and an extra part

[David Thoresen]

Cam seal it was!  Much easir than the cc seal to get to... just marked 
the tb and lined it back up with the new seal in there.  Thanks again!


On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 08:58 AM, Phil Payne wrote:

>>> 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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