been working on a broken timing chain cover bolt for a few days now and finally was able to drill out the rusted in bolt and retap it (easy outs suck!).i found a lot of slack in the timing chain so i replaced the timing chain and gears with a cloyes unit .removing the harmonic balancer and crank shaft gears on these little buick engines is a breeze compared to my olds engines .no pullers needed.so i get to replacing the harmonic balancer seal in the timing chain cover and it was and old rope seal. my new seal is more of a rubber style that just seems to keep popping out after i seat it where it goes.anyone at all ever changed these to the newer style and run into this problem?i dont know if i can even get the old style anymore .

 

You must have the wrong seal, GOOGLE is your friend. LOL

 

the seal came in a gasket kit for the 231 v 6 and all other gaskets were perfect im assuming this seal is a more modern style .at any rate i rtv and clamped it in place and dimpled the housing to hold the metal portion in and thing are good .thanks for the reply

 

Google is not your friend, dont ever think it is