Front Cover - OIL seal installation question

[Onefast99gsx]

Hi guys-

I have a question in regards to the 3 oil seals on the front cover. The front main seal butted all the way up against the aluminum surface. In otherwards, it went all the way down.

The other 2 oil seals however, did not go all the way down. It looks like they stop at a small lip a little ways up from the bottom. Is this correct? Is there suppose to be a little gap on the 2 smaller oil seals from the bottom?

Thanks for any info.

[JET]

They should go all the way down. Make sure the seals aren't in backwards. You can use a socket just smaller than the outside of the seal to tap them down, it shouldn't take much.

[Onefast99gsx]

Hi JET-

Thanks for the reply. It was for sure not in backwards. The little spring is towards the inside of the engine.

Here is a picture. I don't see how the oil seal will go past this little ledge.

[JET]

Take a picture of the seal in. There should be a few slits in the seal where you can see the metal inside, those should go towards the outside of the engine.

[Onefast99gsx]

Not a great pic but here is a pic of the underside of the oil seal. You see where it's open. Under the inner lip is a little spring that goes all the way around the circumfrence. The outter lip is what is butting up against that little ledge I was talking about. When the oil seal is pushed into the front cover with a socket, it's not sticking up at all. It sits just below the aluminum surface. I'm putting it in the right way, I was just wondering about how far it was supposed to go down.

I examined the book this morning and looked at the CAD print. It does look like they are showing the open space in there. It's not much, maybe 1/16+" I want to say it's suppose to bottom out at that little raised edge that you can see in my first pics.

Thanks.

[JET]

Yeah, that must be all that it goes in. Your casting must have been pretty shallow.

[Onefast99gsx]

Thanks JET. I'll put it back in and let it bottom out at that ledge. I removed it very carefully with an angle claw tip screwdriver. It's a brand new oil seal, I just removed the seal to show you pics.

I put engine RTV around the outside of the oil seal also.