[T3] Oil cooler seals.

William Jahn willjahn975 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 12:35:00 PDT 2020


I placed a round plastic container under the center of the case right up
the area where the rear main sits. This is where I saw the drips. It's been
2 days since I drove it last and today I saw a bit of oil in the container.
It was probably oil that was still hanging up there. I wouldn't think using
Valvoline VR1 SAE 40 instead of the valvoline conventional would make any
difference as far as a leak would be concerned.

 I also changed the cardboard under the engine and had an non absorbent
piece of cardboard on the left and it had about the same amount of oil so
there might be oil cooler seal drips. I don't see any around the heads or
cylinder fins of cylinders to the case. I do see a few pushrod tube seals
on the head side yet no drips could be oil blown back.

 I'm going to check the torque of the lower case bolts and hope that's it.
I really can't recall what brand of crank seal I used. I did get a Elring
gasket set yet not the seal. I imagine the Elring seal would be the best
one since it's silicone and not rubber. I think it was orange. I know the
gasket set it used  had the red push rod seals probably felpro. The seal
was separate.

 If I had to replace the seal I don't have a 36mm socket and only a 1/2
breaker bar and a 1/2" impacket wrench which was what I used to remove the
Gland nut.

 So far I've been checking the oil level and never let it fall below the
middle between the two marks. I believe the top to lower is 1 qt.


On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:53 PM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 1 Jul 2020 at 12:39, William Jahn wrote:
>
> >  I was talking about replacing the rear main seal, you know that huge
> bolt
> > that holds the flex plate to the crank , the one that requires something
> > like 275 ft lb's .
>
> I think it's 225 ft-lbs. Divide 225 by your weight and that will tell you
> how far
> out on a breaker bar to stand to get that torque. Don't jump on it just
> stand
> gently.
>
> The hard part is figureing out how to keep the flex plate from turning. I
> have
> holes drilled in a length of steel angle that I bolt to the plate or the
> flywheel.
>
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