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Headgasket trouble? 900 1997

posted by  Amarin on  Sat May 21 19:50 CST 2022
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Dear Metallo,

For the smaller seals at the camshaft and intermediate shaft, they're easy. A small jeweller's screwdriver with a flat head (ie. not the philips head) might do the job picking out the seals. For the camshaft the seal its easily out once you remove the no.1 camshaft caps.

For the main crank seal there's nothing to prevent you to take out the sealing flange with the seal in it. But for me it will complicate the job in removing the oil pan bolts (the ones that holding the flange, not other oil pan bolts) and ensuring leak free installation later. In short I'm not that sure.

So I prefer to pick out the crank seal with a small screwdriver (not jewellers type) with a sharp flat head (honed on sharpening stone) in order to bite into the seal to pick it out. Usually this works. The hard part was to start the seal moving out from its place. Same like trying to unscrew a tight oil filter out.

Lets hear from other members who had removed the sealing flange.

Amarin






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