James’ 1974 W200 build
Well Hot Damn. I dropped the pan and did my rear main seal today... Took off the windage tray, oil pump main cap and loosened all the other main caps to drop that crank down just a touch. That trick seemed to work nicely. I tried first not doing it with no luck, didn’t wanna loosen the other mains but I did it and it worked great.
You can see the original seal, it’s tore up. Like it was installed with no lube, maybe it grabbed the crank and spun? there was a strip of rubber on the crank I had to scratch off with my fingernail.
Took me 9 damn hours today.
20 dollar part, 1,000 dollars labor. LOL
don’t know if it leaks or not, haven’t had a chance to put oil in it and fire it up. Got late.
Well Hot Damn. I dropped the pan and did my rear main seal today... Took off the windage tray, oil pump main cap and loosened all the other main caps to drop that crank down just a touch. That trick seemed to work nicely. I tried first not doing it with no luck, didn’t wanna loosen the other mains but I did it and it worked great.
You can see the original seal, it’s tore up. Like it was installed with no lube, maybe it grabbed the crank and spun? there was a strip of rubber on the crank I had to scratch off with my fingernail.
Took me 9 damn hours today.
20 dollar part, 1,000 dollars labor. LOL
don’t know if it leaks or not, haven’t had a chance to put oil in it and fire it up. Got late.