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| | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,796 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,796 | While you're whittling on that block, counterbore the rear main bearing cap area for this seal: https://www.zoro.com/skf-shaft-seal-3-78x4-34x38-crwa1-nbr-38647/i/G9397674/It eliminates the rope seal and stops that annoying drip from the flywheel housing dead in its tracks. I have a home-brewed mounting fixture for my Van Norman 944S boring bar that allows me to set up in the rear man bearing bore with the cats' paws and cut a square-bottomed counterbore the right size to press the seal into. Jerry
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