The spacer on my 390GT has slight wear, minor groove from the old timing cover seal.

3 options in order of cost:

1. machine and polish, groove from old seal is probably a couple thousandths at most. What would minimum recommended OD be?

2. Sleeve it. Seen Speedi-sleeves, not sure of cost.

3. Buy a new one. With shipping to Oz and exchange rate going to run me ~$100. Ouch.

Would prefer to use option 1 as it is a zero cost. Bad idea???

Unless the groove is fairly deep, it shouldn`t be a problem. I`ve never had a sleeve that was worn enough to cause any noticeable leakage. Another option would be to not put the crank seal in quite all the way, effectivlly giving you a "new" unworn surface for the seal. If you do go this route, I would recommend using something as a shim to space the seal out a bit to keep it square in the bore.

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have not checked in a while, but it was not too much $$ last time i checked.

A small groove is ok though, i usually just take a section of crank polishing paper my machinist gave me. Sit down with a brew and polish it up.



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on my motors i remove the lip on the front cover and install the seal from the front, it makes changing the seal easy and also provides a new area for the seal to run on the spacer.

some good thinking. Sounds like a great idea. I think if you chuck it up in a lathe and us some emory cloth it will come right out and should work fine also. Mike

for that. You would several options on how far you would want the sleeve to go...

But the other day I got a speedi-sleeve for a Deere 762B Scraper output shaft and it was $27, for a nearly 4" diameter and 4" long sleeve.

about where you buy the repair sleeve. I needed one in a hurry and went up to the local bearing supply company. They charged me $50. Since I hadn't bought one for many years, I just gulped and paid. Later that afternoon I discovered that I could have got one for less than $10 by going to the right place. Beware the bite!!!! (But the dyno time was reserved)
KS

Autozone has the sleeve for $8.99.

Dave Coleman
Greenfield, IN
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