P1 FEK |
04 June 2007 01:08 PM |
Rear crank seal
I've had a **** weekend! Someone kindly sent me a rear crank seal to replace the I had leaking so yesterday a mate and I removed the gearbox and clutch and replaced the seal, it took a long time but went quite smoothly. There was loads of oil around the clutch but apart from looking well used it seemed ok. Anyway we managed to get the new seal in evenually and refitted everything, took it for a short test drive, topped up the gearbox oil, everything seemed ok. I then headed off home slowly but after about 10miles it suddenly lost oil pressure and the warning light came on, I stopped and turned the ignition off and there was engine oil pouring out of the bottom of the car! Not good, this was 2.30am!! Managed to tow the car back to my mates, but i'm not sure where to go from here now?? I think somehow we must of just not fitted it correctly, I pushed it in evently but maybe it did'nt seal correctly, I dunno??
The bore was cleaned and carefully lubricated. The seal was then pushed in squarely with the top of a grease pot which happened to have the same diameter as the seal. We took our time an the seal was carefully lined up and gentle pressure applied, then gradually increase until the seal popped in about 10mm. Have we done something wrong? Having removed the gearbox again the seal is still situated about 10mm in and not flush with the flywheel as the previous seal was when it was removed, but I understood that the oil pressure would move the oil seal in position against the flywheel and seal due to it's cheverion(?) design?
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