# 60 seal

I have a quick question. The seal # 60 in clutch cover goes with the spring facing water pump and the inside spring facing crank or towards waterpump?

I think that there is only one round spring that puts tension on the seal lip but at any rate the seal has a blue metal casing on the outside, the side where the rubber part is pressed or bonded into the casing is smooth with no gaps. The other side is open faced where there is a gap in the outer casing to the seal center. From this side you can see the round tensioning spring. Install the seal with the gap side out facing you. The closed side will fit down into the clutch cover.



Photo by Zaga http://husaberg.org/cooling-systems/14130-water-pump-seal-fix-2.html

To help insure a water tight seal here is what I did:
I found a socket, a 13mm I believe, that fit into the seal cavity while still being able to wrap a piece of sandpaper around the socket. I used 320 grit wet paper and sanded it a bit. The reason was three fold. To increase the size of the cavity slightly as the seal is an extremely tight fit. To smooth any imperfections that may cause a leak and to give the sealant some tooth.
Beveling the outer edge with the sandpaper also lets you build up a little more sealant creating a sort of dam so that water cannot get between the seal and clutch cover.

Look at Zagas picture and it looks like he used a orange silicone sealant between the seal and clutch cover. See how rough and chipped up the cover is at about 4 o'clock? That is probably from previous seal installations where the seal driver (socket) slipped and bashed the cover.

Try to press the seal in instead of bashing it in with a socket and hammer if you can and use a good silicone sealant between the seal and cover. Put the seal in the freezer and warm the case up a bit.

If you can get the seal in without it becoming cocked or driving it in too far, it should be level with the clutch like in the photo, then you need to be sure that you don't nick the edge of the seal lip with the balancer / water pump shaft. Buy the Husaberg shaft protector or use tape or use electrical shrink wrap on the shaft when installing the clutch cover. Take the same precaution on the kick start shaft and the shift lever shaft. Use grease on the clutch cover gasket so that you can remove it without tearing it as it may take a few tries before you have a perfect leak free weep hole.

# 60 deal

The husaberg people in oregon said that there are 2 seals. looks like in microfish that there is 2, one on each side of case. I am tearing it apart today so will see. I have oil in coolant and little weeping out of hole. I hope this fixes this. Any ideas?

Hi, just got off clutch cover and 1 seal. live and learn. thanks for advice. I have both the stock one and aftermarket one, which one do you think is the best one?

Just took out bearing and there is a seal behind it. Need to find out what it is. Any ideas? headed to microfiche.

up date. Being brain dead. Put new bearing in freezer this morning before coffee and didn't look at it. seal on bearing. All good.