[Tigers] Rear Main seal issues

[spmdr at juno.com]

I have been unhappy with rear main seals for decades!

I first noticed the problem when I checked main bearing clearances.

With the seal, the bearing clearances changed.

The seal was keeping the main cap from seating properly with the block!

I checked high and low for different sources of seals (including FORD), and found they are ALL the same!!

So I gave up looking and decided to trim the ends of the seals as needed.

Also, of course, real main seal leakage comes into the picture.

And all of this is compounded with blocks that have been alignehoned or alignebored.

I have mentioned this issue to Fel-Pro and they are totally unconcerned.

So I have been trimming seals with mostly good results. YMMV.  DW
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