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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lacey, Wa
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Oil Leak During Priming
Yup, just my luck. Start priming the oil system and oil starts flowing out of the front harmonic balancer seal. Closer inspection, I found that it folded on itself during the install. So I guess I get to take it all apart and see if the seal is damaged then try it again. I know when I installed it, I used oil on the seal and the balancer.
Does anyone have any other ideas how to keep it from folding?
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Re: Oil Leak During Priming
Vaseline not oil its real greasy and will disolve away
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Re: Oil Leak During Priming
I can try some of that, I have some from my transmission rebuild.
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Re: Oil Leak During Priming
i work for a tractor co and all the tech use it for seals and believe me if they use it on $800.00 seals they must know what there doing lol
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Re: Oil Leak During Priming
Something else I am going to try is keep all the cover bolts real loose, so while I am installing the balancer I can jiggle the cover. This might keep from folding too, then just tighten all of the bolts with a gear wrench after its installed.
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Re: Oil Leak During Priming
Did you put the seal in backwards? The balancer pushes the seal lip back. I can't see how you could fold it over.
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Re: Oil Leak During Priming
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Anyways, I reinstalled the balancer with the cover loose and Vaseline on everything. Now everything is on straight, tight, and primed with zero leaks.
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