kenzo42

95 Accord EX

I did the timing belt and replaced seals. After letting it idle for a good 20 minutes, I see oil dripping.

Would you just try to tap the seals in a little further or replace with new ones?

I was thinking of putting some UV dye in to pinpoint which seal is bad (new oil is so may be difficult to pinpoint?)?

Any advice on what to do? This is a major pain in the ***.

holmesnmanny

Aftermarket seals ?

slowcivic2k

How did you install them? Was the shaft grooved? I see a lot of cars, not just Honda's, where the seal will groove the shaft it rides on. If this is the case you can slightly under-drive the seal into its housing in most cases without a problem.

Most seals I install go in the deep freeze, and then I just slide them in. Much more effective than hammering, and potentially distorting the seal.

Did you walk the sealing edge onto the shaft? If you drove it straight in, you may have rolled it.

kenzo42

They were OEM.

What do you mean "it grooves the shaft it rides on"?

I had a hard time w/ the crank seal. Upper half went in first and then I had to push in the lower half. I never heard of the deep freeze method. Interesting.

Well it looks like I need to tear it all back down again. *sigh*

holmesnmanny

You should run it without the timing covers to help narrow down the leak.

MAD_MIKE

Oil seals will machine a slight groove into the shaft it is sealing.
If you replace the seal and the oil still leaks, either the shaft needs to be machined(unlikely) or you can take the garter spring off the seal and tighten it to put a better clamp on the seal to shaft interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_spring

Of course this all means nothing if you put the seals on dry, that would cause the seal to burn if there was no lube.