[Healeys] BN2 oil seal crankshaft front

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 03:48:29 MDT 2011


Jose -

Make sure your motor has sufficient crankcase ventilation.  If the
ventilation pipe has been closed off for some reason you'll get
leakage.  Adding a PCV valve might help also.  Try that first?

Alan

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Jose Vicente Vargas <jvvmusme at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I just fired my engine after a total rebuilt and have a terrible oil leak (
> more like a spill) in the front oil seal in the crankshaft. I used the moss
> oil seal that is made of felt.
>
> Is there a substitute for this felt oil seal ?
>
> Should Ii run the engine for how long praying that the leak stops....
>
> Thanks
>
> Jose
>
>
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