Reply To: Replacing water pump seal

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frankr wrote:

Yep, a 40 seal is larger than a 35. Personally, I’d run the one that’s in there unless it proves to leak in the future. Time enough to deal with it then.

I’m guessing it’s the original 56 year old seal. I had the torch on the flywheel several times
trying to get it to pop off, but I didn’t see where anything melted, i.e., the old broken coils,
so perhaps the seal didn’t suffer heat damage.
I may leave well enough alone with the seal. Perhaps I’ll just put on
new ignition components so I can at least hear it run once.
The Gale’s “Evinrude” lower unit has been gone through with
new seals, bearings, etc., so that can be used on other projects
if wanted. I think we decided it was off a 25 hp…… looked the same
as my 25 hp RDE-17 anyway.

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