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Subject:Re: Oil seals
From:Ian Cameron
Date:Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:55:50 -0800

At 06:21 PM 2/7/00 -0800, Dave Bayer wrote:
>Right,
>        >Is there any magic to changing seals that I am missing?

I don't have a lot of experience with your particular model, but I'll bet
you have pressure in the cralkcase, which is forcing oil out of every
possible opening.  If you're lucky it will be a bad PVC (or the
equivalent); if you are not lucky it will be poor rings that are allowing
pressure past the piston into the crankcase.  Do a compression test.  If
that's ok, see if you can find a sensitive pressure gauge an test the
pressure at the dipstick hole.  There should be no pressure with the engine
running, or even a slight vacuum.

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