94 GSR motor

I am trying to replace my rear man seal... I used a roll of duct tape that fits nicely into the housing, an donly touches the seal itself. I used a piece of wood on top of the tape, and I am hammering the crap out of this seal and it is NOT coming out.

I have the tape oriented so that I am hammering on the spring side of the seal. I have two pieces of wood under it, so that the seal would just pop out as soon as it became loose.

I dont wanna hammer an harder because I dont want to bend the housing... but I am hammering so hard the vibrations hurt my hand holding the wood!

what the duece?!??!

TIA

also - WTF am I supposed to measure cleances of .5 - .8mm, where do I measur ethis? I have a helms but I dont see the gap they refer to, nor do I have anything .5- .8mm.




Modified by B18EG6 at 7:01 PM 1/11/2006

 

man,i was beatin the **** out of mine too,and it wouldnt come out.i then just took it to a machine shop and 2 minutes and $5 later it was good to go

 

you mean the seal behind the flywheel?

I don't think you have to worry about the clearances, just look at how its in there now, then match it up.
when i did mine in my sohc, thats what the guy at the honda dealership says they do, just eyebal it..

also are you removing the aluminum casing or just pulling the seal out directly??
It ur not removing the casing, and ur going to replace the seal anyways,
what I did, was just drill a hole in the seal, then stuck a hook shaped tool into it and yanked the sucker out!

pulling is alot easier than trying to bang one end in to push theother end out..

 

If you are removing the seal, don't worry about the seal itself.

I understand not wanting to damaged the aluminum,

take the "housing" and lay it on 4 equally sized pieces of wood, face down. Make sure the seal isn't on the wood anywhere.

get a punch, and wack the **** out of it.

Hit one side, hard at 12 o'clock then 6 o' clock then 3 then 9 then 2 then 8 and so on and so forth. as long as it doesn't get ****-eyed, it should come out with about 4 swift wacks.

 

well I got it out.. I Was hitting it so hard it was bending the metal part of the seal!

I got it out by placing the seal+housing in the freezer for an hour, then trying again. It came out after a few blows but it left some rubber/plastic on the ID of the housing... maybe thats what was holding it in so hard?

Thanks!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18EG6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">well I got it out.. I Was hitting it so hard it was bending the metal part of the seal!

I got it out by placing the seal+housing in the freezer for an hour, then trying again. It came out after a few blows but it left some rubber/plastic on the ID of the housing... maybe thats what was holding it in so hard?

Thanks!</TD></TR></TABLE>

woah trippy, maybe someone glued that bitch in there or some ****!! ??