HB oil seal replace or not

deadlast

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ill be replacing my HB soon, should i go about changing the front oil seal aswell, as of right now its not leaking

 

final5-0

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I'd not mess with it

Grady

 

RIO5.0

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As Grady said...leave it be if all's cool.....mine was one tough mother to get out...its like it was cemented in or something..

 

mo_dingo

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yeah taking the timing cover is a PITA and doing it while the cover is on is an even more PITA. Might as well yank the timing cover if you are going to do it, and replace the timing gears while you are there.

but if it doesn't leak, I wouldn't mess with it personally.
Scott

 

final5-0

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RIO5.0 said:

As Grady said...leave it be if all's cool.....mine was one tough mother to get out...its like it was cemented in or something..

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I do know what you mean!

I have never had one leak.

I replaced one once upon a time myself.

I got enough fun to last me for a life time with that one and ever since then, I have felt like ... if it ain't broke ... don't fix it.

Grady

 

HISSIN50

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I really considered it since mine was starting to get a little vulcanized. I sized it up like the other wise folks here and decided not to. The seal's metal perimeter looked stronger than the timing cover, which scared me.

Good luck.

 

95cobraguy

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• Feb 28, 2006

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the front seals dont seem to leak as much as the rear seals it seems. since others have had nightmares with the front seals and to change the rear seal u need to pull the tranny, which would you rather do if u had to do one or the other. that would be an interesting poll.