[V8] The ongoing TB Saga 5

[Kneale Brownson]

Guess it's a good thing I wanted to replace the seal.  I see there is a
weep hole in the bottom of the casing that holds the seal for oil or
whatever to drain out.  Must have been a leak past the seal.  I slid the
new seal onto the back of the bearing/shaft assembly and used that to
reinstall the seal.

Now, I pulled the crankshaft seal and replaced it, trying to use the tool I
have for the I5 engines.  Didn't realize this required a different tool.
So I ended up installing it the old fashioned way:  big socket and a hammer
instead of the tool and crank bolt.  Trouble is, I slid the seal deeper
than flush with the outside of the casing.  Should I pull out that seal and
get another to replace it, or will it be OK even though it's sunken into
the case about an eighth of an inch?????


At 02:44 PM 11/10/2005 -0500, Kneale Brownson wrote:
>I wanted to replace the seal because there was a bunch of old oil gunk in
>the area behind/below the oil pump pulley.  I got the bearing off and the
>new one back on the shaft OK using my little 10-ton press.  How'd you
>reseat the new seal?
>
>
>At 10:59 PM 11/9/2005 -0700, John Dodd wrote:
>>Kneale 
>>If the bearing is not noisy or the gasket leaking I'd say leave it
>>alone.