Crank (pulley) oil seal

[Donald360]

I've tried searching the wiki and past posts but cannot find a simple answer to this. Is it possible to replace the crank oil seal at the rear (pulley) with the engine in situ? Or is it a an engine out and strip down job? I aready have the pulley off as I am replacing the water pump and pipes. However there is a lot of oil I suspect is coming from the crank seal. Any advice appreciated.

It is a 1985 1.9 DG.

Thanks
Donald

[R0B]

It can be done with the engine in. Steve at Gasure did mine that way.

[Ian Hulley]

From memory it's a straight forward job with the engine in but with limited access issues.

I remember doing an oil pump and that was a case of supporting the engine on a jack, loosen the gearbox nose mount, remove the gear linkage, silencer, tin ware, undo the mounting bar and drop the engine slightly to the point you can access everything straight on watching the clutch slave cylinder hose/pipe and fuel lines and throttle cable ... see how good your access is and make your own mind up.

Ian

[R0B]

I know Steve didn't remove anything but the pulley bolts when he did mine.

[Ian Hulley]

I know Steve didn't remove anything but the pulley bolts when he did mine.

Aye but the man has the hands of a Gynacologist and our friend my be built more like me

I do vaguely recall doing ours when we had the 1.9 in and I did it by tapping the seal in with a piece of wood across it to get it in evenly ( )

Ian

[R0B]

I also seem to remember he put either a spanner or socket and bar on the pulley bolts and cranking the engine to loosen them..

[Donald360]

Ok. I'll give it a go. I was worried that I might mangle the old seal only to find that it's a pig getting the new one in. New breather stack seal and oil dipstick seal getting replaced as well.

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[Ian Hulley]

New breather stack seal

I ran Blue Hylomar round mine when I replaced my breather tower last week ... still dry and clean as a clean thing.

Ian.

[what2do]

I also seem to remember he put either a spanner or socket and bar on the pulley bolts and cranking the engine to loosen them..

Rather than locking the flywheel???