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Old 07-27-2011, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by winmutt View Post
Rumor has it the rear rope seal can be replaced with engine in the car. By rumor I read it years back in one thread. Never heard or seen any other ref to that.
You could probably change the seal in the upper oil pan with the engine in place (more or less - perhaps a bit of lifting so the oil pan clears the cross member and the engine shocks). But if it was the whole seal - well wow I'd like to see that!

I bet they did something really clever like removing the upper oil pan and then spinning the engine up to 30,000 RPM - watch the old seal squeal and jump out whilst carefully feeding in the new one - whilst keeping all their fingers... it must have been magic...
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