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REPLACEMENT OF CRANKSHAFT SEALING CAPS
REMOVING THE SEALING CAPS
This operation Is to be carried out syste.atfcally
after crankshaft journal or crankpfn bearings have
been reground or, occasionally, If a sealing cap
shows a leak or is dislodged.
It
sealing caps are fitted on the crankshaft; two
sealing cap d! auters can be ff tted:
- 1 - the 8.55 di a. cap,
- 2 - the 9.25 dia. cap.
Consequently, before
re~ovfng
a sealing cap, Its
housing bore diameter 1ust be checked.
Use a
dri
ll shank to do so.
To extract caps, use a portable dr!l
l
to carry out
·
a counter-piercing operation: counter-pierce 8.5
d!a. caps to a 7.5
11
dia., and counter-pierce 9.25
dfa. caps to a d!a.
of
8.5
11
(Fig. 8).
Ren~ove
the re11af nder of each cap 1! th an extractor
or 1! th a tap of the correspond! ng df auter if
It
cannot be extracted
with
counter-pi ercfng bf t.
RE-FI'l'TING THE SEALJNG CAPS
1 -
If
crankshaft
has been reground, f t must be
cleaned by Immersion.
2 -
In
all cases, ft must be
f
lushed with paraffin
and blown with compressed a! r.
Fig.8
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3
Fig.9
3925
3- To re-fit sealing caps, use fitting tool Ref.
21605
I.
Cla1p crankshaft fn a vice fitted with
lead
claws.
Insert spindle In lubricating hole of
Intermediate crankshaft journal, which fs closest to
sealing cap being replaced (Fig. 9)
.
4-
U
se fitting tool to Insert cap until it stops
against spindle (Fig. 10).
Note: rocking-lever spindle caps and chain adjuster
lubricating line cap till be replaced, following the
same procedure,
usi
ng
fi
tting tools Ref. 21602 T and
21605
w.
Fig.
10
3926
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