Just finished a cam install on my Impala yesterday, and now I have a pretty good oil leak coming from the front timing cover area. While I had the timing cover off, I replaced the front main seal with a Felpro one that came with the timing cover gasket. I pulled the balancer back off to reveal that the metal spring that sits on the inside of the seal had come free and wrapped itself around the crank. So I replaced this seal with another Felpro unit, and I still have the leak.
So my questions are:
-Has anyone had any experience good or bad with the felpro front main seals?
-Any ideas where else the leak could be coming from? (new metal timing cover gasket and blue loctite on the bolts)
Supposed to be driving the car to Canada tomorrow. Most likely will replace the seal with a OEM one tomorrow, just wondering if I'm missing anything.
