Amskeptic wrote:Sluggo wrote:Could tight endplay cause a front main seal leak and a slight grind from the fan at idle (grind goes away with the slightest throttle)?
No. Check your endplay with
no front seal installed. .003" is a very subtle thing.
Got it. Pull the front seal and then test endplay.
What the *@$!* is going on with the fan? Fix it.
Don't know. Didn't rub before. The last one I had was grinding. Turned out a screw had fallen in, stayed a while and thrown it off. Replaced it and had no problems. Til now.
Do you have the rubber o-ring between the hub and the crankshaft?
Que? Do you mean fan hub? Can't remember this one. I'll check. If not, it's never been there.
Has your fan been disasembled in the past? Is there crap between the hub fan flange/the thick spacer/fan itself? Has the dowel been buggered by a past chimpanzee fan installation? You can see evidence of this with dowel gouge marks on the spacer ring.
Not that I know of. Shouldn't be any "crap" there. I scrubbed it all clean before assembly Dowel and spacer are fine.
(speaking of leaky front seals, did you replace the flywheel o-ring last time the flywheel was off?)
Yes. But it is used. Just 7000 miles but the one I ordered (
http://www.autohausaz.com/search/imagee ... 105279.jpg)was way too thick so I took it out of my smaller flywheel and put it on my new one. Could that cause that big of a leak?
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