camshaft seal

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4,523 posts · joined Mar 2003 · 15 Jul 2006, 4:49 pm

#511652

I'm about to put my case halves together. I have aviation form-a-gasket (non-hardening) for the case halves but what do put around the camshaft seal. Last thing I want is leaks, especially fom this thing. TIA

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Jul 2006, 5:01 pm

#511659

I've never put an engine together...
well only pistons barrels and heads....
and i like to use the non hardening avaition gasket cement
or permatex.... [very similar]
I didn't know that camshafts in VW engines had a seal....

but Crankshaft seals etc... I just use the avation cement
mainly to lubricate the rubber as it goes into place...
seals, in normal circumstances usually don't leak around the outside...
If You are using a double lipped seal [inner] wipe some oil around the seal between the two lips, so its lubricated...
as the lips usually wipe clean when they go over a shaft etc...
I forgot to take a pic of My crankshaft seal...
its behind the auto flexplate...

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Lee

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5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 15 Jul 2006, 5:31 pm

#511666

If yours is the steel plug type Andrew, just use Permatex.
Some late cases used a rubber plug in that location, like a seal but with no hole.
I would not use that rubber seal in that case with the location groove...some people may have, but I have not tried it.

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Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it

4,523 posts · joined Mar 2003 · 15 Jul 2006, 8:09 pm

#511721

Thanks Dave..

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Lee, the bit that looks like a bottle top that seals your cam on the flywheel end.

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1,593 posts · joined Aug 2005 · 16 Jul 2006, 8:35 am

#511823

I use loctite 518, the red clear stuff.

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