My front timing cover was leaking out the crank seal so yesterday I bought another Doorman cover, and it leaks also. I measured my balancer to make sure it was the right diameter and it was, but it was a lot of work to drop the oil pan and pull the water pump and drain the water, so I had three old covers sitting around so I decided to try to pull the seal without damaging the cover or the seal and amazingly they come out fairly easy and two of them had 200,000 mile on them. I just ordered a gm cover from summit so I am going to try to pull the old seal out and the new seal and put it in my existing cover I measured the doorman and the gm covers OD and there really wasn't enough difference to be concerned about. What do you guys think, I mean the cover was 24$ if it don't work I am not out that much but if it does I just saved a lot of time and maybe causing another leak.

Did your Doorman timing cover come with the seal in it? Was te metal spring still on the back side of the seal?

Yes it came as one complete unit and had the spring on the back

jrr344 wrote:

Yes it came as one complete unit and had the spring on the back

There must be a flaw in the seal. How does the dampner look? Smooth or is it groved. I had a yoke off the diff get groved really bad. Took it to a machine shop. They built it up then turned it back down to size.

Its brand new no groove.

wow, that should not leak, but it does. Hopefully the one you put on the new cover works this time.