Date:         Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:21:42 -0800
Reply-To:     daveb@CP.NET
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From:         Dave Bayer <daveb@CP.NET>
Subject:      Oil seals
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Right,
        So I have had real bad luck replacing the
oil seals on my golf. All of the ones I replaced seem
to be leaking as bad (if not worse) than before I changed
them. I'm about to swap bellhousing on my van and I want
to change the tranny oil seal on the 'new' bellhousing.
Is there any magic to changing seals that I am missing?
Are the elring seals for I4 engines no good?

I tried lubbing the sealing surface with oil, and with
moly grease (someone told me to use grease on them, don't
know if the moly stuff was the right grease to use though).

Then I carefully press the seal into place and seat it
with a rubber faced hammer (ie, small small mallet) slowly.

Right, so any and all help on this matter is greatly
appreciated.

dave

P.S. I'm done being silly, I will just cut the input shaft
in my current gas-tranny down to the length of the diesel
input shaft...