Hi,
I hope someone can help me with a very simple problem on my '69 1200 type 1. I have had the car off the road for some time and only recenty started getting into the nitty gritty of getting the old girl back on the road.
When I got it up on stands i noticed that the rear oil seals had gone and the brakes were nicely soaked in gearbox oil. So i have since stripped the bearings down and rebuilt them with new seals. The only thing i didn't do was drain the gearbox oil as speedy jim suggests.
The thing is now I have replaced the seals 4 times and still not managed to get a leak proof bearing. I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong. The only thing I can say is that on stripping for resealing, the reasonably new (i.e no miles old!) bearing main seal with spring is slightly mangled!! It looks like the seal is not fitting over the spacer properly and therefore upon tightening, the seal becomes snagged and gets shredded.
Is there something really basic I am doing wrong?? The second question I was going to ask is does anyone have a good exploded diagram or procedure for refitting the door glass & winder mechanism. Its been a while since I removed this so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Angus