Rear Main Seal Install
I am going to put it in as is & see how it goes. As you can see in the picture it has a pretty large steel stiffener in the seal. It sets several thousands below the end of the seal on each end.
I tried to cut off the first one and it is really difficult. Messed it up. No way to recreate the rod Clearance below the seal end Surface doing that (assuming that is an intended feature of the part to help sealing).
No info anywhere on the internet about trimming it. All the feedback on the sales I found said it works great. My conclusion is that this particular seal is not designed to be trimmed.
I am a shade tree mechanic at best, so my opinion on this has very little merit at best. However even in in the case of align boring where they shave a few Thousandths max off the caps, I can’t see where the seal at 3 inches ID would be sensitive to that.
Going to assemble this week, so I will post results. Success for me will be a few drips rather than a puddle....
I am going to put it in as is & see how it goes. As you can see in the picture it has a pretty large steel stiffener in the seal. It sets several thousands below the end of the seal on each end.
I tried to cut off the first one and it is really difficult. Messed it up. No way to recreate the rod Clearance below the seal end Surface doing that (assuming that is an intended feature of the part to help sealing).
No info anywhere on the internet about trimming it. All the feedback on the sales I found said it works great. My conclusion is that this particular seal is not designed to be trimmed.
I am a shade tree mechanic at best, so my opinion on this has very little merit at best. However even in in the case of align boring where they shave a few Thousandths max off the caps, I can’t see where the seal at 3 inches ID would be sensitive to that.
Going to assemble this week, so I will post results. Success for me will be a few drips rather than a puddle....
