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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: wayne on September 16, 2019, 12:22:20 PM

Title: rear main seal
Post by: wayne on September 16, 2019, 12:22:20 PM

The 428 i am  doing has rope rear seal i have not did a rope seal for a long time. If i remember rite they had a little pin in the main cap.This one don't have it is it needed if i stay with rope.

Title: Re: rear main seal
Post by: cammerfe on September 16, 2019, 09:01:32 PM

Wayne, my suggestion is to go to a lip seal. Offset the ends so the parting line of the seal-halves and the block/cap don't coincide. Fill the side-seal grooves with a modern 'toothpaste-tube-type goo'. (Thanks to Brother Lon for the nomenclature.) This combination is least likely to leak. Be sure to put the seals in such a way that they point 'in'. :)

Good luck.

KS

Title: Re: rear main seal
Post by: 67428GT500 on September 18, 2019, 03:16:00 AM

No one runs rope seals anymore on an FE. When you purchase the seal buy the R.A.C.E Felpro set.