UH OH...dewman has a leak
07-12-2009, 09:25 PM
#32
WOW...two months later and I am I finally working on it. Made my 4 yr old take the pulley off.
Ta-Da!!!!
The seal was tad difficult at first. I thought I was going to have to do a lot of work to get it out. Fnally grabbed a real long skinny screw driver (flat) and just pried it out.
Pic above has seal sitting there and pic below has no seal. The rubber damage was pretty crazy. It was every where. Apparently the seal seat has two little ports for oil to come and go, I guess...they were packed with rubber. I am not to sure I am out of the woods once I am finished. I am going to run quiet a few oil changes through this thing to hopefully get it all. I do a flush first. And then another. Hopefully that gets it.
The old seal and the new seal. There was such a difference I wondered if the new seal was correct.
I took a pic of this to show that before I pinned my crank (had a friend do it for me...my trans guy) I never "had problems" that I was aware of with the crank pulley spinning. This obviously shows I was wrong and that Blownchevy and many alike that preach pinning your crank on this kind of setup is really needed holds some truth. I never knew.
It was hard, took me three separate tries, but I lined them up. My only issue now is I need to get me an air gun to get that last 1/8" of movement. I can't get it, I don't have a monkey bar. My good pal wkdivr lent me some great tools and in the process I fubar'ed one of them. He will be getting a new pulley mount tool. Such is life I guess. He rocks though. Once I get this thing on all the way, wkdivr also hooked me up with some pulley laser alignment tools. To check this belt alignment out.
I only posted really to let you know...NO REDRILLING! I got that bitch!!!
Ta-Da!!!!
The seal was tad difficult at first. I thought I was going to have to do a lot of work to get it out. Fnally grabbed a real long skinny screw driver (flat) and just pried it out.
Pic above has seal sitting there and pic below has no seal. The rubber damage was pretty crazy. It was every where. Apparently the seal seat has two little ports for oil to come and go, I guess...they were packed with rubber. I am not to sure I am out of the woods once I am finished. I am going to run quiet a few oil changes through this thing to hopefully get it all. I do a flush first. And then another. Hopefully that gets it.
The old seal and the new seal. There was such a difference I wondered if the new seal was correct.
I took a pic of this to show that before I pinned my crank (had a friend do it for me...my trans guy) I never "had problems" that I was aware of with the crank pulley spinning. This obviously shows I was wrong and that Blownchevy and many alike that preach pinning your crank on this kind of setup is really needed holds some truth. I never knew.
It was hard, took me three separate tries, but I lined them up. My only issue now is I need to get me an air gun to get that last 1/8" of movement. I can't get it, I don't have a monkey bar. My good pal wkdivr lent me some great tools and in the process I fubar'ed one of them. He will be getting a new pulley mount tool. Such is life I guess. He rocks though. Once I get this thing on all the way, wkdivr also hooked me up with some pulley laser alignment tools. To check this belt alignment out.
I only posted really to let you know...NO REDRILLING! I got that bitch!!!
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