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Title: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: utey on August 24, 2006, 02:15:20 AM Driving to work , a strange noise from under car ! Stopped and looked underneath,
Oil pouring out the front of the motor. Drove home 500mt went ok no noise ran fine. Any tips Need any special tools (Harmonic balancer?) All help appreciated. Nick Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: mcl1959 on August 24, 2006, 07:02:31 AM Hard to say why the noise came and then went, but oil from the balancer area is most likely the seal. You will need a harmonic balancer remover to fix.
Ken Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: utey on August 25, 2006, 01:35:11 AM Thanks Ken
Where do I get a remover from ? I been to a couple of local garages "havnt seen one in 20 years".... "did have one somewhere".... Any ideas?? Nick Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: Ed on August 25, 2006, 02:29:29 AM utey,
your local auto shop should have one. Cheers Ed Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: mcl1959 on August 25, 2006, 04:22:53 AM Ed, I'd actually be surprised if your local auto shop had one. Our workshop certainly doesn't have one because they borrow mine whenever we need one :P
Best bet is to ask someone at your club for a loan or if they would come round and give you some help one weekend. Ken Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: Ed on August 25, 2006, 04:28:15 AM ..really? getting rare eh?
lucky me, I gathered mine up the other week in a big shed clean up :) Cheers Ed Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: ACE on August 25, 2006, 04:40:28 AM Ed, I think you must be thinking of a red motor harmonic balancer remover as Grey motor harmonic balancer removers are rare!
ACE 8) Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: utey on August 25, 2006, 05:54:13 AM I thought I could make one if I could work out the thread, size in the balancer.
So Ken if you happen to know the size and the thread it would be a great help. Nick Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: FC229 on August 25, 2006, 09:18:26 AM Where abouts are you? I have one somewhere, you could borrow it to use / have a copy made. I'm in Bulli NSW
Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: fe hotrod on August 25, 2006, 10:23:58 AM :)there is actually 2 tools for this job 1 to remove the harmonic balancer and 1 to put it back on!!as trying to put a reco balancer back on takes much longer and in a fc there is no room to swing a hammer,good luck with your mission.....now where did i put my grey motor balancer remover??hehe cheers jamie :)
Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: mcl1959 on August 26, 2006, 08:43:03 AM I've measured the thread and it is 1 and 1/8 inch diameter with 12G pitch.
Regards Ken Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: utey on August 26, 2006, 10:28:07 AM Thanks for your kind offers and information.
All is well actually found a remover!!!! (http://i8.tinypic.com/25iyeev.jpg) Now get to work. Any hints tricks. Thanks again it is really appreciated. Nick Title: Re: Front oil seal ??? Help Post by: utey on August 27, 2006, 06:59:29 AM Removed balancer expected to find lots of oil ...nothing!!!
On further investigation saw a lump on the sump. Not happy. Will start new thread. Nick |