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Old 04-07-2013, 06:08 PM
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Sailhog,
If you look closely at a seal... take a second to look at the rubber ring. Without prying it look closely at the sealing lip and there is a spring there that goes around and helps it hold it's shape and contour....when they talk about a spring in the seal itself that's it. It holds the seal tight in over a shaft. I've never done one of those but should be very easy to see.....but the ring is in the rubber.
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