Mark's description of his experience reaffirms my belief that pulling the
engine out is the easiest way to do the rear seal. Think about "dropping the
sump" with the engine still installed!
After you have done an "engine out" two or three times you can get it down
to under 1 hour removal and less to reinstall it, as you already have all
the right tools out.
Luke and I did an engine swap on his 1600 in less than three hours drive in,
drive out, on one Christmas eve. This included switching from an EFI engine
to a carby L18.
I keep a spare fully assembled engine ready to swap into either of my kids
cars overnight, to keep them on the road. You can then rebuild the dud
motor at your leisure.
Unfortunately my 2 kids drive totally different cars and it means 2 spare
engines rather than one. (The other one is a Mazda and I cant believe how
stuffed they get, compared to a similar Kms. L series engine)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2000 21:20 PM
Subject: Re: rear main
> I had to replace the rear main seal on my old L18 (in my 1600). Did it in
> the car. Bit of work but I fixed it O.K. Remove gearbox, clutch,
flywheel.
> Depending how lucky you are, you might be able to pull the seal out. I
> could n't get into it, so I had to drop the sump, loosen the bearing cap,
> then pulled the seal out. Put new seal on, torque up bearing cap, put
sump
> back on, then flywheel, clutch, gearbox etc. Good as new. All that work
for
> a eight buck seal.
>
> Wardy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Piggott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:26 AM
> Subject: rear main
>
>
> > hey list,
> >
> > Ive got a sneaking suspicion that my main seal is gone as well, i just
> > recently put an old l20b in from an old stanza that i use to drive, yet
i
> > put in a gearbox that originally came with this engine when i bought it
> but
> > i have not put it on till just recently, its a 5 speed but thats all i
> know.
> > It seems to pool large amounts of oil on the floor near to where the
gear
> > box and block met, does this sound like the seal. Ive checked all the
> bolts
> > and shit and they all seem tight so i don't think it's just a loose or
> > sloppy connection.
> >
> > Also i noticed that there were two very diff posts to the original, one
> > saying with a hoist u can do it pretty easy the other saying to take out
> the
> > whole thing. My question- with out the hoist is only a bitch due to the
> > amount of room u have, (i have ramps and stands), or will i need to do
the
> > full removal (please no hehe).
> >
> > I am coming up to a period where i should be able to work on it so any
> help
> > would be appreciated.
> > TIA
> > Cheers
> > ps sorry about the 'me too' post
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> >
>
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