front main seal frustration



See that little arrow on this oil seal.  That arrow angers me. 6 seals from 4 different vendors and they are all for clockwise rotation motors. On a fiat 850 the grooves that are meant to keep the oil in work to pump oil out onto the back of the crank pulley and all over my engine bay. I got this yesterday from rockauto.com. Tomorrow I am going to mcguire bearing and have them find me right seal. This is ridiculous.

I picked up an old Lecarra steering wheel yesterday. Pretty neat and nicer than the grant that I have now.

Missing the horn button though.  Strangely the stock fiat horn buttons 3 retaining prongs are the same size and spacing as the missing lecarra button.

I had to turn the ring down on the lathe  so that the tabs were long enough to reach into the recess and engage.


After that it just snapped together.


Now to machine an adapter.
 

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