As the title suggests I’m just wondering if my crankshaft looks normal, recently replaced the oil pump seals and harmonic balancer, also might be an import note, my friend made a tiny dent on the very edge, top of the crankshaft end, didn’t take a picture of it but he said it’s fine, would that be the case ?
Yesterday I made a post discussing my horrible experience with the intermediate axle, I plan to reinstall it properly (we forgot to put the clip and this seal on) but I can’t seem to find this seal anywhere, I did find a forum saying this was more of a dust cover than anything, either way can I just reuse this and be okay ? I don’t particularly wanna drive my Saab without a seal it needs on it again lol
Recently changed the tensioner, harmonic balancer, and oil pump seals, took a total of 2 hours, then….I tried to replace my CV axle, we spent probably 3 hours trying to take it out, prying it, hitting it with hammers, anything you can think of, come to find out theirs a clip on it you need to take off, which no forum mentioned that I looked out, which led to an even bigger issue.
The axle we pulled out of my car is long as fuck, a “intermediate cv axle” apparently, it runs all the way under the car almost right to the driver side (we pulled the passenger cv axle) and thus we couldn’t use the part I bought and we had to put it all back together because I was at my friends house, we even forgot to put the clip on.
Tried looking for replacements and they’re all so damn expensive and require buying the intermediate part separately for 350 dollars, was really hoping I could get some advice on this, could I realistically just reuse the intermediate part and replace the rest of the CV axle? Nothing looks wrong with it specifically, just rust and hammer scratches from hitting and prying at it.
Decided to buy a Dutch oven because well….they’re nice ! But noticed all this deep scratching around the lid when I opened it, probably from the lid being upside down on the bare metal area, (it was stored like that for some reason) is this okay to have? Will it just be a small imperfection or is it something that should be returned, I only ask because I heard if the enamel is scratched enough to the metal surface then it’s bad