Originally Posted by
onehundred80
If it did not leak why did you feel that you should change the seal in the first place? My motto is if it has not failed do'nt fix it. Mind you when I was younger and got a little bored I would change something, preventive maintenance I called it but it was a waste of time mostly.
Like I said above I almost didn't but it was 11 years old.
To answer your question---I owned 3 tires/ general repair shops for 10 years and when I would do timing belts for customers I would recommend cam and a front crank seal at the time---60 to 90k.
Most of these cars were under 10 years old at that mileage. I did so to cover my butt because having the car leak in a year or two would make me the "bad guy" since I was there not that long ago and going back in was not cheap.
Same thing here---11 years old seal and I was there.
I thought twice and even three times because it was dry and it was different in the look.
The part number lined up after I checked so I did it.
Do you have any idea why the correct number went in so easily?
I went to trash to retrieve the part bag and checked again on the net and the number is the one for the car---so they say.
Any help will be nice.
Thanks Jimmy