Bob in Tennessee
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I am fighting a bad rear seal leak on my 172 gas after a rebuild. The rear cap has a slot for a rope seal as well as a slot for the rubber two piece seal with lip. My questions are - which direction should lip on seal face, and is it possible to shim out rope seal to make stronger contact with crank? The oil flow is from crank, not vertical cap seals.
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