Best front/ rear seal alignment tool?
also saw this video by steve morrison where they use the balancer to align.....6:45.....anything wrong with this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn898OCAAls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn898OCAAls
I simply make sure the cover is level...again level...at the pan rails.
ive also never done this before obviously, but the benefit i can see with using the tool vs the balancer is that you can visually inspect the front seal after torquing the cover to see how it looks. again, you could just pull the balancer back off but who feels like touching that more than you have too
Last edited by Floorman279; Jul 29, 2018 at 01:25 PM. Reason: .......
so you're agreeing with the first video saying the tolerance for the pan to cover(s) must be no more than .50 mm as the first video states?
ive also never done this before obviously, but the benefit i can see with using the tool vs the balancer is that you can visually inspect the front seal after torquing the cover to see how it looks. again, you could just pull the balancer back off but who feels like touching that more than you have too
ive also never done this before obviously, but the benefit i can see with using the tool vs the balancer is that you can visually inspect the front seal after torquing the cover to see how it looks. again, you could just pull the balancer back off but who feels like touching that more than you have too
Im not sure why you’d want to visually inspect the seal after torquing the cover, concerning your tool comment. The seal is not gonna get hurt by the balancer install, unless the balancer is torn up, or pitted badly.
Honestly if you got the extra cash sure go for it if not dont worry about it, i done my first cam swap when i was 17 on my 00z28 daily driver i did it in my dads dirt floor barn in December with a kerosene heater a Walmart Stanley tool kit and a couple of auto zone borrowers and a ls1howto i changed the oil pump timing chain ect as well i just dropped the front of the oil pan then used rtv to seal it back up, put a new seal in the timing cover with a couple 2x4 wood piece and lined it up by eye, rtv on the valve covers when i changed springs, no special tools or anything, that was 11 years ago and i still have the car it has 174,800 miles on it and to this day still dosen't leak a drop of oil anywhere, mind you that was only the front cover but still you get my point, fast forward to today ive learned ALOT since then got a lot of tools and a garage since then and wouldn't do half the crap i did then lol and i have been very precise on my 408 t6 s480 build but i still dont have any of those tools. Maybe I was just lucky idk but i still smile and laugh when i think about it when im out in the garage working on the other car.
Last edited by King23; Jul 30, 2018 at 07:12 AM.
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Verdad Gallardo tools are nice, buy them then sell them for half of what you paid for......then we can all keep doing it for each other and we get free tools minus shipping and we can pat ourselves on the back for playing it safe.
