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I'm in the process of fixing an oil leak in the front of my 300 I6. Here are a couple of photos of the trashed seal and the harmonic damper surface:
As you can see there are wear ridges on the damper. Strangely the main wear ridge is proud on the surface, not recessed. The wear appears to be outboard of (outside of) the seal wear surface. Is this normal? If not, is it fixable? Would using the Felpro gasket kit with a sleeve work? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
What many guys don't do is lubricate the sealing area well enough so it ends up burning the seal an leaking again..
Orich
I greased up the seal and the damper pretty good. Hopefully I'm good there. Unfortunately I must have messed up the gasket to the oil pan and have a leak there now, Going to have to pull the oil pan to install a new gasket. Ugh!
It use to be when buying a front timing cover gasket you'd get the front part of the pan gasket to replace that pan part so you would not have to remove the pan.
Just use some rtv at the cut off line part of the gasket
I use this many times over the yrs that, I've done font seals repair work
But if you don't have any tie rod in the way making it way to much work just for the timing cover lip gasket.
May be also think about replacing the lower end like the oil pump an rod bearing also depending on the mileage all while your in there.
