Have you done a compression test and checked for excessive blowby? If
you have too much blowby then new seals dont matter much.

Tom
www.stir-plate.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jay lefstein <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:10 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Subject: help needed can not drive van...oil seals for Syncro

hey guys I am losing the battle with an oil leak on my syncro... I
have replaced the oil cooler seal, oil pump seal and oil filler tube
gasket..

when i did this it appeared that the main pulley seal was fine ( i
removed the pulley and saw no oil... at least i think i aw no
oil... ) .... I guess i was wrong ;(.. so i put it all back together
washed the oil off the back of the van and drove 200 kms........
bummer the oil was leaking just as bad as before if not worse...
so I ripped the exhaust and heat sheild back off, pulled the main
pulley off and pryed out the seal and replaced it.... put it all back
together and ran the van for 15 mins...
then splash a ton of oil started spilling out from behind the pulley
( worse amount yet )
I am confident the i put the seal in correctly..

now this is the question.... have any of you seen a syncro specific
seal for this app.... i don't see any listed but the seal i took out
seemed a bit different then the one i put back in ... it seemed to
have a second outward facing lip ( which i assume is for keeping out
water...

does anybody have the correct seal part number  and where to get them
quickly in canada?
and any thoughts or suggestions of what could be wrong?

thanks
Jay

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