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Originally Posted by BIGVANS
I’ve never seen it done but I hear you can jack up the engine with the transmission and remove the motor mounts and do the repair from the underside. IMHO not the best way to do it but I guess they can beat flat rate that way.
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i was just browsing thru this thread... there's a UTube
video on doing the bedplate, and the poster of the video
sums it up this way:
"If your bedplate seals are leaking, I would definately get
it replaced before your warranty runs out. There are some
technicians that do this in the chassis but I dont recommend
that. To insure a quality repair, the engine should be removed.
If doing this repair in the chassis, you would be trying to
reassemble with oil still dripping down onto the new seal and?
it will leak again. Thanks for sharing my videos!"
my nickels worth of opinion is that it isn't a leak till it hits
the ground under the vehicle.
a rule of thumb in most things is to stop at the 90th percentile.
trying to make anything perfect just screws it up beyond belief.
90% is usually great, and 100% means you screw it up and have
to do it three times to get it to work.
when i had my engine out for most everything, the rebuilder
and i looked at the bedplate, and it had a bit of weepage...
now the engines on a rotisserie, and we could do it right then,
and his reason for not doing it, is that splitting the bedplate
off, you are doing the same thing as pulling the main bearing
caps off an engine, and if you don't have to disturb plain babbett
bearings, you don't touch them.
and i have to agree with him. we did the rear main oil seal,
and left the bedplate alone. pick your battles, as they say.
if it's leaking badly, and you have to fix it, that's one thing, but if
you have a smidge of seepage, and it's not puking on the ground,
smile, count your blessings, and move on.
if you want to know what is leaking, and where, nobody is going
to pay as close attention to your toy as you are, so, quit posting,
go get some tracing dye and a light, and get to it.
http://tracer.drupalgardens.com/
if you don't have firsthand knowledge of the exact nature of your
problem, then anybody can tell you anything, and you are powerless
to do anything about other than feel like a victim.