[DML] Re: front main seal tool

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Crankshaft seal is a thin metal frame wrapped in rubber. That tool
avoids two things:
- Bending or distorting the metal frame
- Damaging the rubber facing (lip seal and the facing are all one
piece of rubber)

You can accomplish the same by being gentle and careful:
- Lubricate the new seal, the crankshaft, and the hole in the timing
chain cover
- Turn the old seal around backwards and place it face to face against
the new seal. This will give you something to strike against without
damaging the rubber facing of your new seal
- Make lots of tiny gentle hammer taps around and around (and around
and around) the backside of your old seal, slowly driving the new seal
in. Stop when the new seal is flush with the timing chain cover

Installing the seal is the easy part. Removing the crankshaft pulley
is going to be your problem...

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Soma576@xxxx wrote:
> List,
> 
> the shop manual says you need a special tool to insert the front main 
> crankshaft oil seal (the one with the pulley on it by the muffler).
 is this really 
> necessary, and if it is, where do i obtain this tool, how much is
it, or does 
> someone on the list have one i can borrow?  i would pay expenses.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]




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