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Lyod: There is an old saying never judge a book by its color. If it wouldn't have been for a young fellow in his 30's, this web site wouldn't be here today

There are also a lot of grey haired old dudes out there that are dumber than a box of rocks.

John F. Shireman

Check out these places and do a search for square cut o ring. Each of them have a good selection of materials and sizes. Measure the shaft diameter, recess diameter & estimate thickness of what you need & should be able to find something reasonably close-same for the short bar front bearing seal you photographed and asked about some time ago.

http://www.mcmaster.com/
http://www1.mscdirect.com/cgi/nnsrhm

Here is another resource for various items.

http://www.smallparts.com/

HH56, thanks for getting the thread back on track. I didn't mean to hi-jack it with my comment but perhaps I should apologise to Eric and the younger members of our group and qualify my previous post.

I have encountered, just in the past few months, one young man and one young lady at a couple of the national chain, parts houses in the local area who went out of their way to help me locate parts for my car. Neither lasted very long.

One of the formerly locally owned chain stores that I used for years recently became part of a national chain and their helpfulness, to me, has deteriorated noticeably.

I applaud all young people who have somehow acquired a respect for quality service in today's prevailing corporate atmosphere that predominantly rewards (and punishes) employees and managers seemingly solely on the basis of sales volume.

Currently, the most helpful parts house in my immediate locale happens to be a company owned national chain store - rather than one of their franchises - but they have one employee whose sole function seems to be dealing with customers looking for parts that aren't cross referenced in their computer database. He's an old guy and has his own undoubtedly, "outdated," references (they'd have to be --- they're printed). I appreciate him and appreciate the fact that they're attempting to service ALL of their potential customers but - I'd still go there for parts if he was a young guy or, even better, a young, good-looking woman.

I ain't prejudiced, I just want to find parts that will fit my car.

"There are also a lot of grey haired old dudes out there that are dumber than a box of rocks."

But not all of us ........
John

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John, Nice work with Photoshop. How did you manage to get those young babes in the photos with the old guy

Just lucky... ...Was invited to a suite for one of the VOODOO (Arena Football) games, and the team cheerleaders, the Voodoo Dolls, split up and visit the suites during the game. Would you believe my wife took the photo!

ok the seals you are wanting for the gear box are special. they have a step made into them. i have some nos ones right now that i'm working on reproducing. stay tuned for details!


p.s. i'm a young guy! (32) and have worked in the auto parts industry for 13 years!