Help..... Sos!!!

[Onefast99gsx]

Hey all-

Engine is on the cherry picker right now. I was gonna bolt the flywheel on and then I discovered this(see pics). The rear main seal has a slight gap on the top part of it but on the bottom area of the seal, it's tight agaist the crank, no gap. When put the rear main housing on, the rear main seal was already in the housing, I just put a little vaseline on the crank and tightened each bolt at a time in a criss cross pattern.

I'm scared to put it all together and then have a massive oil leak out the rear main seal. Please let me know what you think. This is the outter lip. There is the inner lip also which is the one that actual is the the sealing lip. I would suspect it is off a bit too.

Please help ASAP.

PS- On the top where you see the gap, you see bits of white color, that is the vaseline that you see.

Thanks.

[joem]

Spin the crank see if it changes.
Joe

[Onefast99gsx]

I spun the crank about 8x and it almost appears if lip started to angle out a bit in the top area where the gap was or is. That would mean it is making contact with the crank. Perhaps the vaseline was a bit too much and rotating it is tapering that level off. That's a theory possibly.... I'll post pics in a bit. In the unluck streak the cherry picker is out of oil. I'm trying to locate some now. Stand by for pics.

[JET]

Hmmm....is it possible that the oil pan is pushing the cover up too high? Is it bent up around the edges at all?

[Onefast99gsx]

Hi Jet not sure.... Before I put any RTV on pan pan tonight, i test fit the oil pan to see if there was any high spots. It seemed to lay flat on the whole surface all the way around because I was gonna to pound down any high spots.

Here is a few pictures. Doesn't look good. I stuck a .013" feel gauge in and I can tap metal on the crank. From 9 o'clock to about 12 o'clock is this gap. I'm so afraid i'm gonna have to take the oil pan all off, the rear main seal housing and reset the rear main housing. Take me a few hours just to clean all the RTV i just laid on it tonight.

(see recent pics)


Thanks JET

[Onefast99gsx]

Too much silicone, and pushing down on the rear main housing??? Just a thought, but I don't see how it could have moved when 5 bolts plus rtv is holding that rear main housing in place. == Plus 2 pan bolts go into the rear main housing so I would think it would pull it the other way if anything and give it a gap on the other side if anything, but I don't know.

[Onefast99gsx]

I suppose I'll pull the oil pan back off in the morning. I'll have to take the rear main seal housing off too. I'm the the rear main seal will be junk then. I'll have to order a new seal i guess.

[joem]

the oil pan shouldnt do that. Is the crank fully seated in the bearings? thecrank is to low. I was thinking bent crank but if the gap stays when turned then its not. How is the front seal? do you have the right rear mail seal housing? 2.4and 2.0 I think are differnt.

[JET]

I would loosen up the bolts on the rear main housing, then tighten the ones on the oil pan to pull it down and see if that helps. hopefully the silicone hasn't set yet.

[Onefast99gsx]

That unfortunately didn't work... well I got up early this morning and pulled the pan and scraped all the rtv off the block. Then I took the rear main off and scraped all the rtv on the gasket surface of that. Then I put some oil around the lip and test fit it back on the block. Same crap. It has that little gap. Something isn't right with the seal itself like it isn't round. When I put the rear main in, I cut a billet chunk of aluminum in the lathe just a hair less than the outter dia of the oil seal. I then used the press to ensure that it went down evenly.

When you guys put the new oil seal in the rear main housing, do you put a film of rtv around the oil seal or no? I DID. I don't know what I did wrong. If you think of anything based on what I just said, PLEASE let me know.

Thanks.