[DML] Re: front main seal tool

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

You can do the job with a tool that is similar - but, be sure you 
use something that will leave the seal straight. That tool uses the 
housing as a depth limiter. You need to really clean the sealing 
surface. If the seal surface has ANY grove in it you need to install 
the seal so a different surface location is lined up with the new 
seal if you can. I gave up at the third seal and replaced the pulley 
too. It was fine then. Without the new pulley the seal started to 
leak again after a few thousand miles.

BTW - check the torque for the nut on the crankshaft pulley. You 
will not break that loose with a breaker bar. An impact wrench will 
be required. I used a 150 ft-lb electric 1/2in impact to do the job. 
It took a while to break loose but worked fine. Also, I had to 
loosen the rear fascia bracket to fit the impact wrench in there. 
Don't forget the loctite.

Harold McElraft - 3354



--- 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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