am I going to start leaking right away? on my 88 4.0L I replaced the harmonic balancer and front crankseal and I didn't follow the instructions :exclamati I had the timing cover off and I "bench installed" the crankseal (that little buddy was soo brittle it took some serious persuasion, I don't think I could've done it on the jeep to save my life at least without some damage) and then I reinstalled the timing cover back on the block without "centering it with the harmonic balancer" which you are supposed to do with the old seal in place so you don't damage your new one, but I just let the 12 bolts that hold it center it (seems like 12 bolts would be pretty accurate?). then when I was installing my new balancer I had 0 clearance to tap it on with a soft faced mallet per instructions, hello- there's a crossmember welded in place right there! so I angled a 2x4 through a hole in the crossmember and whacked that sucker with my meat eating 24oz framing hammer and got about halfway onto the "keyed shaft" before all forward progress halted.... so I stuck the big retaining bolt in place and ratcheted the balancer the rest of the way on
BTW- yes I did grow up at the end of a dirt road ig:
but seriously, I would like to know how mortal of a sin this was!
BTW- yes I did grow up at the end of a dirt road ig:
but seriously, I would like to know how mortal of a sin this was!