Rear Crankshaft Seal trick

[cornmencita]

Hello yaall!

During Military festival in Poland - Darlowo, I meet one bloke who told me a story about Some trick regarding the way how to get rid of this annoying leakage at the Rear Crankshaft Seal.
Namely, instead of the graphite packing cord, one could use a simmering from Leyland SW400 diesel.
It is factory cut and inner spring can be spliced after assembly and just pushed inside on the lip – pictures says it all.
Does anyone have any experience or have heard about it?
I have googled around and found that blokes in US doing it on Flathead V8’ts.

It can be purchased from Poznan - Poland - https://stanek.info.pl/product/119

Assembly photos:

[Mockba mule]

Cornmencita, and others,

I know of the existence of "spliced"simmerrings" (is this the correct english term?)
But I never used them. The link to the webshop is now broken. Does anybody get the part number or the dimensions of the simmerring?
I want to go this route to get my leakage solved.
I know I can go measure when i get the grafite out but like to have the parts prepared when starting the job.

[portamurda1]

Not sure if you mean ‘shim’ but any decent hydraulics place should be able to source you a ‘camshaft’ type oil seal, all you need are thickness and inner and outer diameters…I put one on a very early Suzuki SJ wehn I was stuck with the inevitable ‘they’re on back-order’and ‘Active Hydraulics’ bailed me out

[portamurda1]

Oh, and that original stuff is called ‘gland packing’ and it’s best to cut to size on a diagonal and at least a millimetre oversize in thickness