I am currently rebuilding my bottom end and am trying to fit a new rear seal
If i put it in before tightening the rear mains cap it gets pushed out on tightening!
How do you fit it once the crank is in?
Cheers Spadge...

 

the seal comes with a plastic sheild which helps to fit it.

 

A bit more info please
I have no plastic shield so what exactly are you meant to do with it and why the smiley

 

yeah the seal i got from fords had some plastic shelid round it, fook knows how your supposed to fit it though, havent got round to it yet

 

 

or you butt the old one up to it backwards and use that to tap it in

 

Just slide it over the end of the crank and tap it home spadge, easy job M8.

 

Thanks Stu and and Nick
I thought that might be the case but didn't want to do it and find i shouldn't have!

 

i fitted mine after the mains were fitted,just slides over the crank and then i tapped it gently but firmly ( if you get what i mean ) whilst continuously moving around the circumference of it ( so you don't push one side in too much at a time)

 

i just used a pipe the same diameter and taped it home squarely with a rubber mallet after everything else was done

 

The plastic sheild is there to stop the inside of the sheild catching the crank, you place it over the crank end and slide the seal in, then remove the plastic jobby, and tap it home with either the old seal, or somin soft.

The was because people always throw the plastic jobbie away

 

When i say sheild i mean the inner part of the seal, which can get damaged when pushing it over the crank, i have seen people use a screwdriver to get it over.......