In many other engines that seal rides on the spinning crankshaft but in
waterboxers it rides on the spinning flywheel or flexplate.

Mark

JRodgers wrote:
> My experience with the clutch dictates to me that on the next clutch job
> - Ol' Red (2.1L) gets - as a matter of course - a new pilot bearing, a
> new flywheel seal ( why it's called that instead of a crankshaft seal is
> beyond me),