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> Preferred Method of install Engine Tin Seals, Push or Pull?
bandjoey
post Oct 27 2011, 04:36 PM
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I'm getting ready to install Mikey's new rubber seals in the engine compartment. Getting the old hardened ones out took cutting and chiseling. Ug.

What's the preferred method to install the new seals into the channels?

Oil it all up and slide it in? Align it and squish it in inch by inch? Other ways?
Thanks.
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post Oct 28 2011, 07:08 PM
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I used a wooden pick:

(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/149961_1707367929926_1409883264_1854339_5215820_n.jpg)

Here's the back piece:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/149961_1707367969927_1409883264_1854340_395727_n.jpg)

Cutting for the corners... these should have been left a tad longer:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/149961_1707368009928_1409883264_1854341_1174768_n.jpg)

(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/149961_1707368049929_1409883264_1854342_3542438_n.jpg)

Rear seal in place:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/149961_1707368089930_1409883264_1854343_8289948_n.jpg)

Here you can see where it could have been left a tad longer but, the engine tin will be here:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/151003_1707375730121_1409883264_1854363_4910237_n.jpg)

I mirrored the factory 45 degree corners on the edge of a grinding wheel:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/151003_1707375770122_1409883264_1854364_5335527_n.jpg)

Front seal in:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/151003_1707375810123_1409883264_1854365_6128275_n.jpg)

Basically done. Rob Sime was nice enough to loan me his hog-ring pliers to put the hog-rings back in the corners:
(IMG:https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/151003_1707375850124_1409883264_1854366_1535732_n.jpg)

This is the easiest job I've "ever" put off for a long period of time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Marks seals are spot on! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)
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