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Hi to me the newbee

Have replaced oil seal at fly wheel end twice after the inner lip kept spliiting from the outer ring. Am about to do it for the third time in a couple of weeks. I have armed myself with a genuine seal, dial gauge for end float and polished rear of fly wheel. Just wondered if there is anything else I should be aware of as I really dont want this to happen again. Cheers

is the flywheel scored ? if so fix it first - can be speedisleeved probably
and replace the internal flywheel o ring too
assuming this is a wbx - don't know about diesels

Cheers for reply
Yea its a wbx, fly wheel looks pretty decent, does have very faint marks from original seal but im not sure what would be classed as scored

scored is can you feel it with your nail , if you can then it's scored, there will always be a polish mark but if it's gone through the surface hardening it'll just go deeper and damage any replacement seal
polished is ok

Nice one, will check it out when its off

I was wondering: Did you perhaps install an aftermarket oil seal flush with the end of the engine casing? An aftermarket seal is thinner than an original and has to be pushed in as far as it can go or else the flywheel WILL rip the lip off.