Fwd: replacing front main crank seal?

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Says in the Bentley, right on page 3-29, "always replace".
There's a thread on the VWsport hardcore forum about this and a guy not 
replacing it, having it break. Not good! Cheap to replace.

From: "Jeff Toomasson" <area53@validpath.com>
To: <type53@gmail.com>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: replacing front main crank seal?


>> If the bolt is a 12pt bolt then it is one of those "always replace" 
>> bolts.
>
> Drew - are you certain of this?? I put several high-torque, both-direction
> forces on that bolt when I rebuilt the block (ABA) because the #4 piston 
> was
> frozen. Now I'm gonna panic that I need to fix it (< 100 miles on a 
> rebuild,
> runs like a champ tho!)
>
> Plz confirm.  Thx, JT
>
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