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[05omegav6]

Ofcourse they came with head gasket set,just waiting for flywheel bolts .

Another £40 special?

[Matchless]

When fitting the new crank seal will find that the seal lip wants to fit over the crank at exactly the same point as the seal outer wants to engage in the block - if you try to tap the seal home you will damage the seal lip and it will leak worse than ever.

You need to make a tool to guide the seal lip onto the crank - I have used thin brass or aluminium shim in the past but I imagine a thin rigid plastic would work well (like the old overhead projector sheets). Wrap a strip of your chosen material tightly around the crank and fix the overlap with sellotape to form a tube. Grease the outside of this then carefully insert into the oil seal. Offer the tube + oil seal up to the engine and the tube should ensure that the seal lip cannot get trapped as you tap the seal home.

[T.m.f]

Ofcourse they came with head gasket set,just waiting for flywheel bolts .

Another £40 special?

Your more than welcome to buy me a complete gm gasket set,but im on a very tight budget so i buy within my means.

[05omegav6]

Surely more cost effective to buy right once than to strip the engine every 3-4 months

[biggriffin]

When fitting the new crank seal will find that the seal lip wants to fit over the crank at exactly the same point as the seal outer wants to engage in the block - if you try to tap the seal home you will damage the seal lip and it will leak worse than ever.

You need to make a tool to guide the seal lip onto the crank - I have used thin brass or aluminium shim in the past but I imagine a thin rigid plastic would work well (like the old overhead projector sheets). Wrap a strip of your chosen material tightly around the crank and fix the overlap with sellotape to form a tube. Grease the outside of this then carefully insert into the oil seal. Offer the tube + oil seal up to the engine and the tube should ensure that the seal lip cannot get trapped as you tap the seal home.

Fizzy pop tins work well, as very thin,and pliable.lots of lube aswell.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Surely more cost effective to buy right once than to strip the engine every 3-4 months

To be honest, the cheaper gasket sets are generally ok assuming it has the likes of an Elring, Payen or similar good make head gasket.

Reality is that you re-use the cam seals and the inlet gaskets are all much of a much ness. If you don't remove the exhaust manifold from the head then that's one less thing to worry about (but if you do you need the metal multilayer gasket and not the composite rubbish) and ideally a genuine cam cover gasket.