Re: Rear main oil seal on 288 very tight

Posted by Larry51 On 2013/5/4 19:06:14

Thanks Tim - now I get the picture! Glad I didn't tighten the cap down yet. I'm still wondering why the seal is so large. I wouldn't have thought for a moment that it would be necessary to exert so much pressure just to get it into place.

HOW would someone be able to do a seal replacement (using this size of seal) with engine in situ when the seal takes so much effort to 'squash' into shape! Reading other posts it seems it would be 'hit and miss'.