Everything posted by bms231
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
well.. been a week and out a few times. my fix has held longer than the dealer's two attempts. first trip out I left a coolant puddle in home depot's lot. upper radiator hose wasn't tight enough. if that's the worst thing to happen I'll take it.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
Thanks dood. Definitely get the anaerobic meaning... but didn't realize it was actually anaerobic. Kinda has me worried now about this stuff setting not setting up ever and causing leaks. Everyone said use loctite. service manual says mopar bearing mount. figured loctite bearing mount should be the same thing. hopefully it holds.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
?? 1. used the Cummins seal kit per the thread. so it is a match set of sleeve and seal. oem cummins. even called them with my engine code to confirm. 2. researched the 620. said it above which is why I selected it for the gap coverage. originally had the stick, but saw the gap coverage wasn't as great as the liquid for. 3. read the instructions on the bottle, their site, and technical spec doc. mentioned primer, but never exactly said why. most spray paints say use primer but 99% of the time it's not needed. figured it was just another add on and acetone cleans just as well. so.....I waited 4 days. on the bottle it says cure time of 24 hours. the way they word the primer leads me to believe nothing about required use. designed to promote the curing speed of LOCTITE anaerobic adhesives and sealants without any significant loss of joint strength
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
my article is complete.......... https://mopar1973man.com/cummins/articles.html/24-valve-2nd-generation_50/51_engine/12-and-24-valve-front-crank-seal-replacement-r474/
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
Started her up tonight to bleed the coolant system. Let her bubble for ~30 minutes. So far 45 minutes run time on the truck. Fingers crossed... no oil as of yet. Don't want to jinx it. Waiting on a part from dodge. Stupid dealer never put the plug back in my bell housing where the barring tool goes.
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12 and 24 Valve Front Crank Seal Replacement
I set about searching the internet and looked at 20+ videos and 40+ threads that all seemed to be somewhat incomplete and decided to write an article based on my experience. My original nightmare dealer experience thread: https://mopar1973man.com/topic/11382-front-crank-seal-help-and-show-and-tell-of-what-the-dealer-did/ Tools Required 1. LocTite 620 ($12) http://www.amazon.com/Loctite-234772-Temperature-Retaining-Compound/dp/B003T7UXUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460479397&sr=8-1&keywords=loctite+620 2. Astro Bearing Race and Seal Driver ($40) http://www.amazon.com/Astro-7824-Bearing-Driver-Master/dp/B00061SGFO?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 3. 1 Ton Press ($59.99 - 20% coupon) http://www.harborfreight.com/1-ton-arbor-press-3552.html 4. Three M8 x1.25 120mm Long Bolts ($4 each). Lowes carries them. These will be used to align the timing cover and slide it home so you don't make a sloppy mess. I also found a pack of 10 on amazon for $6.45 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A30JI7I/ref=biss_dp_t_asn 5. Razor blade scraper to remove old seal from gear housing http://www.amazon.com/Hyde-Tools-13050-Scraper-Blades/dp/B000BPEPSC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1460569550&sr=8-4 6. Sand paper (220 fine grit) to remove old seal bits from gear housing 7. Acetone to clean up gear housing 8. Piece of 2x4 or wood to bang on so you don't mess up the crank sleeve Optional Tools: Electric Torque Adapter ($56). All shops should have these IMO. Makes life easy. http://www.amazon.com/ACDelco-ARM602-3-8-Inch-Measurement-Adapter/dp/B004VYUKTC/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1460478588&sr=8-12-spons&keywords=acdelco+electronic+torque&psc=1 Barring Tool ($34) http://www.genosgarage.com/product/tool-ltbt/tools Important Note About Tools: Do yourself a favor and just buy the 1 ton press and seal driver set. It is a lot cheaper than messing up a seal. From the thread above, most people usually mess up at least one seal. Parts Required 1. RTV Ultra Black. Get the pressurized one like this. Makes it so easy. http://www.autozone.com/sealants-glues-adhesives-and-tape/rtv-adhesive/permatex-ultra-black-maximum-oil-resistance-rtv-silicone-gasket-maker/491386_0_0/ 2. Cummins factory seal kit with sleeve ($50 to $124 depending on where you get it): 3802820 Parts Note: 3802820 Cummins Seal Kit can be had on ebay for for as little as $50 shipped. You cannot buy them from the dealer. Random Notes 1. Cummins installation tool sets the depth form the REAR of the timing cover 2. Everything is a 10mm except the crank pully is a 15mm Torque Specs Crank Pully/Balancer: 92ft/lbs Fan Support Bracket: 18ft/lbs Timing Cover Bolts: 18ft/lbs Tear-Down Procedures 1. Remove the 4 nuts on top of the radiator to get positive battery cable out of the way 2. Remove the oil catch can on the bottom of the timing cover (just a 10mm nut that holds it on) 3. Disconnect gear case breather tube 4. Remove the upper radiator hose. You will lose a little coolant... just a little bit, but it makes the job SOOOO much easier. 5. Remove the coolant overflow bottle. There is a little "button" at about the middle of the back of the white plastic can that pops into a slot on the fan shroud. Push that button in w/ something hard then pull up on the coolant overflow bottle. Remove the little hose from the radiator to the coolant overflow bottle. 6. Remove the windshield wiper reservoir. It is annoying to fight for space. Easy to remove. First pull up on it to remove it from the fan shroud. Then disconnect two electrical connections from the bottom of the truck. The lower one is to the wiper fluid motor. You just pull and wiggle off the black connector to the fluid motor while supporting the fluid motor. I am sure you can twist and pull out the whole motor assembly, but why mess with an old O-ring. The low level connector which is slightly higher on the bottle is a standard clip you pull back and pull down on the connector. Remove the hose to the bottle. Remove the reservoir from the top. 7. Remove the accessory/serpentine belt. Put a 3/8" socket and breaker bar (or actual breaker bar) into the hole on the front of the tensioner (see image below) and rotate left relieving tension while pulling off the belt. 8. Loosen the fan shroud. There are two clips on the top of the radiator. Two bolts on each side of the radiator. Then lift up as there are two tabs the shroud sits in on the bottom of the radiator. 9. Remove the 4 bolts to the fan hub. One is blocked and you cannot remove, but you can unscrew and the fan hub will come off. I personally had to grind down a 10mm closed wrench to fit inbetween the space of the back of the fan pully and engine block. An open wrench started to strip the nut. 10. Lift the fan and fan shroud out in one piece. Thank me for removing your upper radiator hose first. 11. Remove the front crank pully/balancer (4 bolts). You may need a barring tool. Geno's Garage has them for 34 dollars as noted above. Even without a baring tool I had my neighbor attach a wrench to one of the four bolts while I loosened the other three. Then we tightened back one of the three I loosened and broke the last one. 12. Remove the timing cover bolts. Two of them are threaded studs. They simply remove just like any other bolt. To get the timing cover off I used a heat gun to loosen the ultrablack gasket in there and used a pry bra from the top of the cover to start to pop the thing off. I recommend marking on the front of the timing cover where the long bolts and studs go. It will make life easier when you are trying to re-assemble. You can't see my markings b/c I marked under the bolt in silver marker. 13. Clean the gear housing surface with a razor blade scraper, sand paper, and some acetone. Ensure it is super clean and oil free. Clean out any gunk in the bolt holes. I threaded a screw in each hole to ensure I wouldn't have any issues when it came time to install the timing cover as the dealer got the holes filled with RTV. 14. Clean and inspect the crank nose before sleeving. It must be perfectly clean and dry. Clean with acetone and grind down/buff any burs. The dealer used a seal puller and put huge gouges into my crank nose which caused high sharp burs. I ground them down with a dremel and polished them with some jewelers compound. Your gear casing should look as clean as this before you even attempt to RTV down a new one: Sleeve Install Procedure This is the sleeve. It is metal. The outside of it on both size are NOT beveled. ONE side on the INSIDE is beveled. The beveled portion goes IN TOWARDS the engine to help assist it sliding over the crank nose. I called cummins to confirm this. I did not get pictures of the next steps but here are the procedures: 1. Put LocTite 620 on the inside of the sleeve 2. Clean up the crank nose with acetone and ensure there are no sharp burs (should have been done above) 3. Put more LocTite 620 on the crank nose 4. Place the sleeve onto the crank nose with the bevel facing inward towards the engine 5. Put the wood block on the front of the sleeve and whack it a few times with a hammer. Get it on about 1/4 to 1/2 the way. It will get hard to move if not impossible. 6. THE MAGICAL STEP: Go get your crank pully/damper and the 4 15mm bolts. Put the crank pully in front of the sleeve and put in all 4 bolts as if you are trying to install the crank pully. Finger tighten all 4 bolts up to the sleeve. In a clockwise motion around the 4 bolts, turn each bolt 1 turn until the pully bottoms out on the crank nose. Boom... no tool required. No frustrated banging. No messing up the sleeve. Remove the crank pully. Seal Install Procedure This is the cummins seal install tool that comes in the sleeve kit. It is meant to set the depth from the BACK of the timing cover. To set the dept, the rounded nose portion of the cummins tool goes DOWN from the back of the timing cover. It will not hit the teflon seal. Just ride the edges. The seal press kit I mentioned above fits perfectly into the cummins install tool Again I didn't get pictures of me pressing in the seal, but this is what I found after much research and destroying one expensive seal. Both cummins-b and mopar service manuals say install the seal from the back. The seal CAN be installed from the front while the cover is on the engine, but it is a royal PITA from what I hear. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. This is what the dealer did to my crank nose trying to install from the front. I found when I tried to install from the front, the cummins seal with a new timing cover was so tight that the timing cover shaved off metal from the seal. This is how I did it: 1. Put the timing cover with it's back down to my bench 2. Remove the plastic seal guide/protector 3. Put LocTite 620 on the inside of the timing cover and around the outside of the seal. DO NOT get any on the teflon seal itself. 4. Install the seal crooked from the front. I put one side about 50% of the way down through the hole in the timing cover. 5. Put the appropriately sized seal die onto the front of the seal (this is the side w/ the little arrow showing clockwise directional rotation.) Since once side of the seal is below the lip of the timing cover, the die will not slide around. 6. Use the 1 ton press to press down on the high side of the die. With a lot of squeaking and pressure it will go in. Don't try to press down directly on the seal. I tried this and wound up with a bent seal. Hence, use the die. 7. Once the high end is down into the timing cover about 4mm, flip the cover over 8. Put the die into the cummins installer tool like I have pictured above 9. Pushing again on the high side of the seal, slowly work it down into the timing cover with the press 10. Re-install plastic guide/protector from the back (teflon side) so that the wide opening of the seal is going to go onto the crank nose Eventually everything will bottom out and you will have a properly depthed seal with the cummins tool pressed on by the die/press. A note about depth, since you are sleeving your crank, it doesn't really matter as long as you are on the new sleeve. Optimally you want the new seal to be anywhere from flush with the front of the cover to 1/4 into it. ALTERNATIVE SEAL INSTALL METHOD You can go to autozone. Buy a 3" O.D./ 3" I.D. muffler coupling ($2.99) which is the perfect size for the front of the seal and use that and a piece of wood to try to pound it in. I couldn't even get mine started when I tried it and had to go out and buy a press. You can be like me and try to save money and do this method first, but you will kick yourself for damaging an expensive seal. Re-Install Procedure 1. Clean all the old seal off the timing cover with a razor blade and acetone 2. Use some fine sand paper to scuff up the surface. If it is slick the ultrablack will just slide around. Clean with acetone. 3. Apply a bead of ultrablack in the groove on the rear of the timing cover. Go fully around each bolt hole. 4. Take the M8x1.25 bolts I suggested above and use them as guides to hold and guide the timing cover in square. You can do it without, but it is a real PITA to get things aligned. With this method I didn't get RTV on a single bolt nor did I have to move the cover around at all. Picture of the location for each bolt. Obviously take them out and thread them through the cover one at a time like the next picture. 5. Slide the cover on, but don't moosh it on. Just make contact. Otherwise you will moosh seal into the bolt holes and get rtv on your bolt threads. You may have to push hard to get the seal to move over the crank nose and off the plastic guide. This is ok. 6. Per ultrablack instructions, finger tighten all the timing cover bolts. Let the cover sit for 1 hour. Torque to spec - 18ft/lbs. 7. Remove plastic protection sleeve. You don't want to do this before letting it sit for an hour b/c the cover will move back slightly when torqued and move the seal along the crank nose. You want that puppy to get on the crank nose and never move again. 8. I used my baring tool to turn over the crank (turn left so the crank goes right) twice. This allows the teflon seal to mate with absolutely zero oil in the crank case. 9. Per ultrablack, do not put the vehicle in service for 24 hours. I let the truck sit for 8 hours on a 75 degree day then let it run for 15 minutes. The ultrablack was hard before I chose to start the engine. The next day I let the truck run for 30 minutes while topping off my coolant with a bubbler. This is a good video I used to make this write-up. The kid however wants $100 to rent his tool with a $400 deposit. If you are going to spend $100, buy a press and die set like above which is less than $100. Then you will have tools you can use over and over. You don't need a tool to put the sleeve on the crank. Just use the fly wheel like I posted above.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
started her up with Mike on the phone. she didn't explode. rain tomorrow. will take her out Wednesday and check for leaks. still have to get air out of cooling system.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
meh gonna start her now
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
got her buttoned back up..... tired i wound up not starting her. rotated the crank by hand twice. book says let her sit four hours dry. i am going to let it sit 24 hours b/c ultra black says wait 24 hours before putting vehicle back into operation. fingers crossed.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
just found my baring location has no rubber gromet in it. dunno if the dealer left that out or one wasnt in there. he just did a valve service. likely forgot to put it back in. Got er in. don't mind the locktite 620. thought it would have hardened by now, but still goopy. oh well. seal is a hair cocked, but square in the cover. really weird. i tightened the right side of the case down a bit harder to compensate. waiting for ultraback to hardened for an hour per instructions, then torquing to spec you might like this redneck engineering. i went to lowes and got 3 M8x1.25 120mm long bolts. threaded them through the cover and used that to perfectly align the cover before pressing on the cover w/ ultrablack. my seal work. i found i had to scuff the back of hte cover to get the ultrablack to stick. first attempt it literally slid right off.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
The finished product. I am leaving that loctite 620 in there. hardens in 24 hours. ZERO of it is touching any seal material or yellow sleeve. i won't know until tomorrow if depth is right... but... i used the cummins tool so hopefully when I do the install, all goes well.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
read all the above... update and response to a few of ur comments... new timing cover. dealer destroyed last. install is happening off the truck. Here is what I did. I went to harbor freight. Got a 1 TON arbor press I saw someone use on another thread. I overnighted a seal install kit from amazon for 40 bux. There is NO WAY in hell this was going to go in from the front square. I tried w/ my original destroyed seal and the seal actually bent. I played around and this is what I did...... went from the front (kinda). I put the thing in crooked on purpose. I then used the arbor press to press the one side down w/ the seal die set. I then came in from the back and found one of the seal kit dies fit perfectly inside the cummins installer tool. I then pressed put the die in the tool and pressed in from the back seating the seal to the correct depth. I had to use nearly 1ton of force to get this little bugger in. it must have something to do w/ a new cover. i found it would be SOOO much easier if i took the paint off the inside of the timing cover and the red paint/crap off the outside of the seal... but i did neither b/c I assume it's there for a reason. this thing was a PITA to get in. it is nearly perfectly level. as close as I will ever get it IMO. not 100% sure i didn't bend the timing cover in the process even though I had it on a block of wood flat on the press. Items Used: LocTite 620: http://www.amazon.com/Loctite-234772-Temperature-Retaining-Compound/dp/B003T7UXUI?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 Astro Bearing Race and Seal Driver ($40): http://www.amazon.com/Astro-7824-Bearing-Driver-Master/dp/B00061SGFO?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 1 Ton Press (59.99 - 20% coupon) http://www.harborfreight.com/1-ton-arbor-press-3552.html Just realized phone update makes these photos come sideways...
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
Well I just destroyed the first seal. Can't go in from the front. The front of the new timing cover is too narrow. You wind up gouging out the sides of the seal. Can't go in from the back. Install tool from cummins isnt worth a dang. Won't stay level. Messed up the seal in every way possible. I am now officially stuck. Hell, I even tried putting the little turd in my vice grip to squeeze it in......... no go. Oblonged the seal.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
emm billet cover. or so it looks. Sadly the tool won't go in the front of mine. going to **** around with it in a few.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
dang. my tool doesn't fit from the front. I will dork around tonight. I got two seals just in case. it's amazing... 50% of people demand front. 50% demand back. Cummins b manual says back actually. I read it on a thread somewhere. #heregoesnothing
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
....................................... ...................................... So mike and I were having a discussion about this "install tool" and would like some user input as I am going to turn this thread into an article. how do you use this tool? Drive seal in from rear of cover: the way it is angled it looks like you take the plastic sleeve out of the seal (which technically ur not supposed to do) then insert the seal into the back of the timing cover and use this tool to hammer it home. Two problems: 1. you have to remove the plastic protective guide 2. you are hammering on the side the teflon seal bends towards, however, it looks like the round nose of this tool avoids contact with anything but the metal surface... if it doesnt slide around which it will probably do until the seal is seated down into the cover The installer tool does however fit perfectly into the hole, seats on the concave portion, and rim catches the timing cover to ensure an even, level, properly depthed seal ... although it does look like it will be in pretty far from the front and not flush against the front like some people say it should be. rear of timing cover From the front: Other approach is to try to hammer this home from the front using a piece of 3" ID exhaust coupling i bought at autozone for 2.99 or a 2" pvc pipe cap purchased at lowes for 2.29. I really see no problems w/ this approach as you are hammering away on the flat metal side of the gasket. the only issue is you have no way to get proper depth or guarantee 100% level as the tool does NOT fit in the front of the cover in any shape or form. This is as far as it will go which is like 1mm in ....... dear god my thumb looks old Sudo approach: Drive this puppy in from the front. Go a little deep. Then give it one or two whacks from the back with the tool. I am thinking I like the sudo approach. Thoughts?
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
LOOK WHO GOT THEIR SPEEDY SLEEVE ON... Ok I did panic a bit. I was trying to hammer it on w/ a piece of wood, but couldn't get leverage. Couldn't get a pry bar there. Wound up tapping on the seal w/ a hammer but saw I started to mar up the front. So what did I do? Deeeeeeeeeerp....... I put the flywheel back on and tightened all the bolts in rotation. Frigging easy as cake. Here is where you can see a dinged up the front of the sleeve a bit, but I didn't oblong it or make anything the gasket will catch on. plus it doesn't ride up there anyways. Green loctite 620ed that sucker on there....she ain't moving. Letting that dry overnight. Tomorrow... pressing the gasket in the timing cover.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
glad u knew bc I am on the phone with Cummins and they don't know lol
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
no directions with it sadly
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
cool deal... what about the direction of the speedy sleeve? that bevel on the inside of one side was i right about it going on the crank first then pounding her home. if it was on the outside then it would be last on per the video.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
Was going to use it to stop the crank from turning when i tightened on the flywheel. It was a PITA to remove the bolts. Must have turned over the engine a few times. I got some loctite 620 which is a liquid and fills gaps up to .015 vs .007 of the stuff i posted. QUESTION........ my speedy sleeve has no angled bevel on the outside of one side like there is on the video. it actually has an angled bevel on the INSIDE of one side. this goes on first correct? i assume to assist it sliding onto the crank. otherwise it would leave a gap at the front of the crank if it went on facing away from the gear cover. That bevel is on the INSIDE of the sleeve and only on one side. I assume this is how you use the tool to pound on the sleeve how the heck do u use this tool to seat the seal to the right dept from the rear of the timing cover w/o removing the plastic guide? i dont want to screw up the seal. i mean are you supposed to use this thing to drive the seal into the cover? it won't really fit through the front and either way you have to remove the plastic guide which i was told never to do.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
First question... where the hell does a barring tool go on an automatic? i thought it went in the front of the crank, but apparently not. Am I supposed to remove something on the transmission? For the CC stuff.... I definitely did that, but going through the CC company they contact the Dealer and the dealer goes "nope we did what we were supposed to" and the CC company denies the claim. Update on what the service manager said.... I went down there today and instantly the service manager goes "nope wont cover ur radiator" and "we will get back to you tomorrow." He was talking about how he knew Jared (the tech) for 20 years and this just isn't something he would do. GET THIS CRAP TOO.... I get a near 50% discount on parts at one dodge dealer. I bought my parts there and brought my truck to this particular dealership. The service tech said it wouldn't affect my warranty using OEM parts from another dealer. The service manager said... nope sorry that is wrong. It is our policy if the seal fails day 1 and you don't buy the parts from us you are SOL on labor. BULL! Looks like we go to court. btw... i was going to use some of this between the crank and speedi sleeve, but from everything i am reading i am going to put it on dry. thanks for being so patient with me. when you dont know, this stuff is scary.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
I love all you guys. Seriously. Sooooooooooo helpful! I am going to the dealer today. Of course they stopped talking to me. I will keep you posted if I get my money back or go file in small claims. I will also keep you posted on the build. Still waiting for parts in the mail.
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Front Crank Seal Help .... and show and tell of what the dealer did
thanks for the tips. getting the speedy sleeve on is what i worry about. no tool to do it other than hammer and 2x4. the sleeve too i hear is supposed to go on dry. i had someone tell me you are supposed to use red loctite on the crank shaft before putting the speedy sleeve on to fill in all the grooves and secure the sleeve to the crank. truth? i mean makes sense... u dont want the speedy sleeve rotating.
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Edge juice or iQuad
I did extensive research between the smarty touch and the edge juice with attitude cts2. I was initially going to w/ with the edge, however, on many many forums i read how their tune runs hot. higher egts. everyone kept pointing back to the smarty over and over again. when i do wind up buying, the smarty touch is what I am going to get, even though I don't really like their touch interface that much. just so 1995.