What is this seal/gasket?
What is this seal/gasket? Ok my friend has an LS2 Corvette. He had an oil leak so I took the oil pan off and saw the front cover wasnt flush with the bottom of the block causeing a front cover/pan leak. So I took the water pump, balancer and front cover off and after I got all that off I looked down and saw this seal laying on the leaf spring. Its bigger than the crank snout but snaps on the end of the balancer perfect. I've had quite a few ls's apart and never seen one. I wasn't for sure if it was LS2 specific. Anyways thanks for the help and sorry for the pic quality.
TECH Resident
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 829
Likes: 12
From: Right here, right now!
Ok my friend has an LS2 Corvette. He had an oil leak so I took the oil pan off and saw the front cover wasnt flush with the bottom of the block causeing a front cover/pan leak. So I took the water pump, balancer and front cover off and after I got all that off I looked down and saw this seal laying on the leaf spring. Its bigger than the crank snout but snaps on the end of the balancer perfect. I've had quite a few ls's apart and never seen one. I wasn't for sure if it was LS2 specific. Anyways thanks for the help and sorry for the pic quality.
GM seems to use this on the shallow profile balancer. Probably has a higher tendency to move than other styles.
It goes between the balancer and the timing set lower sprocket.
