At 10:16 AM 11/15/03 -0500, Greg Schluge wrote: >I have been stopping oil leaks in my 76 for two years now. Slowly but surely >I have plugged them up. The last leak was the rear seal. I pulled the engine >and found that the seal was pushed all the way to the crank face of the seal >plate, and the seal spring jumped off the seal lip and was laying on the >crank. The previous owner said that he had rebuilt this engine. It has good >compression, end play is .004 inch. Good compression, Runs smooth at 70 MPH. > >Well I put a new seal in and all leaks were stopped for one month, now it is >back worse than ever, 1 qt per 40 miles. I expect that the seal ring jumped >off again. I am going to pull the engine and see if the crank seal surface >has any runout. Any other suggestions while I have it on the bench?
Greg, Try checking with the various vendors and see if you can find a "wear sleeve". Check out my article on my Voyager mini van: http://www.allpar.com/fix/3liter-timing-belts.html John John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Va. Beach, Va (eBay id: zebra48-1) Phone: (757) 495-8229 48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1109) 75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887) 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III 65 Rambler Classic Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan Bricklin: www.bricklin.org *** http://www.team.net/the-local *** *** unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try *** http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool *** http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo *** Archives at http://www.team.net/archive *** Edit your replies!
