B-break O-out A-another T-thousand

[mcaruthers95]

I was preping my bell housing for outdrive installation and I noticed the ring around my oil passage connector has a dent on the bottom side of it. I have searched the manuals and can not find out how this comes out. Should I use the Pull Real Hard method? Should I leave it alone and hope the bell housing gasket which circles this connector stops any oil leak that may occur? It is a 78' TRS unfortunatly and fortunatly. There is no o-ring on this connection just the BH gasket. Thanks!
Mike

 

[searay3]

Re: B-break O-out A-another T-thousand

That seal doesn't look like anything special. Single lipped oil seal. If it's NLA and you can get the numbers off it, you can go to Precision bearing or motion industries and they can usually cross ref and get it for you. Even if you cant read the numbers, they can match them by spec. Outside diameter, inside diameter and depth. To remove it, you can carefully drill a couple of small holes in the metal of the seal, opposite each other, screw in a couple of sheet metal screws and with a small slide hammer, attached via visegrips, work that out.

 

[mcaruthers95]

Re: B-break O-out A-another T-thousand

Would this part be called the Bell Housing Oil Seal?

 

[Howard Sterndrive]

Re: B-break O-out A-another T-thousand

you can pop it out carefully with a screwdriver or use a seal puller - but read the numbers off the metal part there before destroying it - can almost read them in the pic if the angle was a bit different
Looks like a CR lip type seal - any bearing place will have it in stock.

 

[mcaruthers95]

Re: B-break O-out A-another T-thousand

bearing store did find it with lots of cross refing...easier than I thought thanks guys