[Verdoro 68]

Originally Posted by steve25

If it where not for the oil slinger lip you would have really had major mess!
Very surprised you only had a mist.

It was more than a mist, but yeah, I'm surprised it wasn't gushing all the time. The smoke didn't lie, that's exactly where it was pouring out. The rest of the engine is sealed up perfectly. Not a drop or a sign of a leak anywhere.

Originally Posted by lust4speed

I would offer that the seal was too tightly packed. All other rope seals work better being compressed and bunched up into the grooves before being rolled down. If you preload the seal where it becomes fatter it will grab the crank no matter how much you try and roll it down, and it will squish up like what is in your photos. If you really pack the seal it will melt from friction. I've found it works much better to simply lay the Teflon rope in place and roll it in.

I remember reading some old posts of yours where you had one of these seals fail. I tried to follow your guidance and roll the seal in carefully. What tools or methods have you used to place these seals successfully? They generally have a pretty high success rate. I clearly did something wrong, now I just have to figure out where I messed up.

Originally Posted by Gach

In your first Photo looks like from the picture, that were the hole/divet was that making seal not having equal compression. By trying to fill that void making seal Out of round…. egg shape so to speak. Taking a crank that completely round trying to seal and out of round seal. Under load. Thats why I fill the divots. The graphite seal isn’t like the old rope seal. Hey all I can tell you is that its worked for me never had a issue.

This is a graphite seal. Here's what it looked like when I installed it. I suspect some seal material got compounded in that anti-rotation hole as the seal rotated. Looking back at my pics I used a 3/4" deep well socket to roll it in place.