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I have a pretty bad oil leak up front underneath of the crankshaft pulley. I was wondering if any of you guys have experienced this before and had to replace that seal. I did one of these before on my 78 toyota pickup and it was a pretty straight forward job. Was wondering if anyone here knows what kind of job it is to replace the seal on the luv. Mine is a 1980 4x4.

Well I have a leak to but it's on the back side of the crank between the motor and trani, so consider your self lucky

I just had to replace the oil seal on my LUV. The seal cost me about $5.00 at checker auto parts. The job took me about 25 minutes to complete. The hardest part of the job was removeing the pully bolt.

use a rattle gun to get the nut off, easy as pie off in 1 second as for the seal, thats not the sump/oil pan seal is it?

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if its the crabkshaft pulley seal, then its easy. hopefully its not the pan gasket. basically just pull the crakshaft pulley, and pull the seal. should be a standard seal, like a wheel seal. just pop the new one in and reassemble and your done.

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1979 luv long bed parts truck
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It did turn out to be the crankshaft pulley seal. I was so relieved that it wasn't the pan gasket. Two parts that made the job hard were getting the pulley bolt off, and getting the seal to go in evenly without bending it too badly. I didn't think the old suzu 4 banger was going to have enough power in her to break the bolt free. On my old 78 toyota it broke free first try. The luver took a couple tries to get it to break. Wedged the rachet up against the frame under the radiator, and gave her a crank. Eventually it broke lose. Then it took forever to knock the new seal in. I bent it a little bit, but it doesn't seem to be leaking. I just hope it doesn't shorten the life of the seal. Anybody know of a tool or method to get that seal in without bending it or messing it up?

Thanks guys for your responses and help.

When I replaced mine...I used a ( I belive ) 23mm socket over the seal and lightly tapped the seal in. The socket diamiter is about the same size as the seal.

Ticks my wife off when she is missing her mason jar lids ---> HINT.

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i know an easy way to get the seal in only it requires you to pull the engine

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Heh Heh. Noyz you like to do stuff the easy way eigh?

You aussies always do stuff upside down. How do you work on them standing on yer head?

JUST KIDDING!!

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- 1981 Chevy Luv 4X4 - Newly put together

hell yeah! its the only way to go

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I said no to drugs....But they just wouldn't listen!

No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap!