back to the front cover and the crankshaft pulley seal.
well all the measuring and research that i did was for nothing. the dam thing leaks like a sieve !!!!!
so back to the drawing board, this is what i discovered, first when did ready sleeves start getting smaller and smaller, the ready sleeve i fitted was only 3/8" wide but the pulley has a boss on it that measures .812" so you had better get the ready sleeve in the right spot and as the ready sleeve has a flange on the outside edge that should not touch the front of the seal and the seal lip is .3" from the front of the seal that leaves you .075 to play with but when you fit the pulley through the seal the lip moves back further about .010" so now the target is.065 wide where the lip fits round the ready sleeve, now bearing in mind that you don't want the lip to be near the edge of the ready sleeve then you had better be right in the middle, a 1/32" to deep with the sleeve and you will set the lip on the step between the sleeve dia. and the pulley dia. or too shallow with the sleeve and you risk the flange wearing the front of the seal,
now the original mahle seal has a special lip which lays flat on the pulley, i guess its an attempt to not wear a groove in the pulley, the problem with that seal is it is not a tight fit in the timing cover which is why i choose to go with the duralast seal which is made of metal,
the problem with that seal as i found to my dismay is that i doesn't seal, this may have been due to the measurements i took to locate the sleeve was with the mahle seal and the lip is off the sleeve when using these measurement for the duralast seal.
solution, fit the duralast seal and then fit the mahle seal in front of it so the duralst seal stops the mahle seal falling inside when you put the pulley in the hole, now i have the mahle seal lip on the sleeve and the duralast lip on the pulley boss.
bummer i had to take the whole thing apart because of this, i'm glad i keyed the crank and pulley though because none of my timing has changed, now all i have to do is clean all the oil from the front of the engine bay and put it back together.
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