crank shaft seals???

actionman

i'm thinking of buying a 2001 2.2 SRi 150 from a lad at work. It's using about 1L of oil per month. He says it's not burning any oil, no smoke etc & that there's just an oil leak clearly visable under the car.

He's taken it to a local garage & they said it's a crank seal. Now after looking on here i've found there seems to be 2 crank seals, 1 front & 1 rear. How easy a job are they & what's involved? Also how much do you think a local garage would charge for this sorting out? the garage quoted him £45 but that just seems really cheap to me if pulleys & gearbox have to be removed to get to the seal :wtf:

Thanks

Craig 8)

vocky

the crank pulley oil seal is very easy to swap and would be about £50 for a garage to fit

actionman

any ideas about the rear crank seal?

thanks

Craig 8)

vocky

rear main oil seal requires the gearbox to be removed so the flywheel can come off 🙁

actionman

ah right, so if the mechanic has said it's the crank seal it's prob not actually the main seal then!!

actionman

Right, i've been & had a good look around the car today. Pretty tidy really. It's a 2002 51 reg with just over 100k on the clock

I've got underneath it & it's def not coming from the rear crank seal & there's plenty of oil around the crank pulley etc!! It's got pretty much full service history. Timing chain etc was done last year :thumbup:

Craig 8)

vocky

easy fix then 🙂