Re: Rear main oil seal on 288 very tight

Posted by Anthony Pallett On 2013/5/8 2:36:18

My experience with rope seals are that they are extremely snug even to the point of not being able to turn the crank with a crank shaft socket and a breaker bar. If you have the seal installed properly as it seems that you do it is kind of the nature of the beast as weird as that may seem. I have messed around with a few rope seal engines and they do tend to drip a bit of oil nothing major just a very slow drip. I have never used the new style graphite impregnated style but I have heard good things about them.