Hi all,

I was hoping to drive another 50k miles before putting new oil seals. But it started to leak pretty bad right after I put a new timing belt.

So there I was, pulling out old intermediate seal, I noticed that all the seal plate bolts were really loose.

By the time, I took out old crankshaft seal. A piece of gasket cracked and fell onto the crankshaft.

So I had to remove the seal plate, put a new gasket on. Then, I noticed the bottom part was long so I just chopped it off with a scissor without thinking... Ahhh... What a mistake. It leaked oil as soon as I fired up the engine and got worse as I drove.

Then, I made an another mistake, I guess I banged it too hard, new crankshaft seal failed, it was leaking oil when I cracked it open for the second time. Tony said. "tap, tap, tap". I did, "bang, bang and bang..." What was I doing. :-(



Spray mount the gasket and trim it with a knife.





Apply some jelly inside the seal. If you stuff it as shown, it does retain the spring in place better. I dipped in and gave sugar glazed bath with engine oil after that.





I ate three munchkins (cam/intermediate seal) and 1 large glazed donut (crankshaft seal). How many did you eat when you did yours?



These are total parts I used for this job. What an experience! One thing for sure, I shouldn't have looked at my burnt down 1018SR before I started the job. That sinking feeling really didn't help.

1 timing belt
1 tensioner
2 seal plate gaskets
5 cam/intermediate oil seals
2 crankshaft oil seals

Hope this help for first timer like myself. Please correct me if I am wrong or if you disagree. :) Good luck and thank you as always.