Arrrghh!...84 4ksq Cam Front Oil Seal Replacement

[Kneale Brownson]

Did you lube the seal with a little oil before installing it?

At 11:14 AM 2/13/2005 -0500, gwbutler wrote:

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>The plastic oil seal installation sleeve that Blufergnugen sent me instead 
>of tool 10-203 allowed quite a bit of "play" and, regardless of how far I 
>screwed the cam sprocket bolt into the cam, did not seat the seal far enough 
>to meet the chamfered edge of the seal housing. There appeared to be a 
>spacer built into the tool that must stop at the end of the camshaft to 
>avoid (he..he..) pushing the seal too far into the cam and blocking the oil 
>return hole. I found that I had to use the old seal, a deep 30mm socket, and 
>a hammer to seat the seal at the chamfered edge of the seal seat. Needless 
>to say, once everything was buttoned up, the engine started-up like a charm, 
>ran nicely for about a minute (although I do have to replace a previously 
>noisy lifter),... and started leaking oil out of the cam front oil seal.  
>Obviously I'll be replacing the seal again next weekend. Now I have to have 
>Blaufergnugen send out their damned 2085 and 10-203-like tools again...and 
>tie-up a few hund
> red dollars.  I can't trust the "new" oil seal integrity. Any listers have 
>BTDT's to relate? What'd I do wrong?  TIA