30-03-2020, 03:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-03-2020, 10:21 AM by Bob Culver.)
I went to a lot of trouble and fitted a flinger seal in front of the (very large) seal in a Jowett Javelin as these used to rapidly go solid. I did not know about Viton seals at the time, if they existed. After a few hundred miles it emmitted a hissing sound. Fast reverse and wild braking cured it for a while and eventually it stayed quiet! Some oil has to reach the lip seal. The disc seal will draw oil toward itself.
on my car never any hint of dimples. Used to just stretch the metal slightly until it gripped. Could use a fibre washer but important that it not crushed too much or too little, centrifugal force even at 4000 rpm is astonishing.
(Edited. Wrote lip instead of flinger. The existing was a lip seal)
on my car never any hint of dimples. Used to just stretch the metal slightly until it gripped. Could use a fibre washer but important that it not crushed too much or too little, centrifugal force even at 4000 rpm is astonishing.
(Edited. Wrote lip instead of flinger. The existing was a lip seal)