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Did a vid last night on installing seals on a solo 665. Never worked on a solo before, so, definitely not an authority there, BUT, this saw is for another member, and I was under the impression that these seals took an excessively large amount of time to get.
hmm
substitutions? been doing that a bunch lately.
Long story short, the PTO seal is the same dimensions as a husky 288/394/395 seal. 17 28 5mm
HOWEVER... the oem solo seal appears to be single lip
In addition, just looking at the spring its just itching to pop out, so you MUST use a husky seal sleeve (or coke can trick) to install. Personally, if it was my saw I would have put an am double lip in there (or oem 288 seal) ...single lip worries me.
ALSO, confusing things, the solo pto crankcase is NOT even all the around the outer lip of the seal. I put the seal flush with the height of the crankcase best I could.
Flywheel side is 15 24 7mm
just looking at it, there's no reason for the seal to be 7mm thick. 5mm would probably work fine. This was double lip so I was less worried. In a pinch it seems like these are reasonably available but I can't find exactly what other saw this might go on. 15mm means 6202 (or in the solo's case 6302) ... but a 24mm seal pocket width might be a tad odd. 268/272 is 26mm, so that won't do. other ideas??? the 24 od is definitely the trick here.
if anyone has anything they'd like to add go for it.
hmm
substitutions? been doing that a bunch lately.
Long story short, the PTO seal is the same dimensions as a husky 288/394/395 seal. 17 28 5mm
HOWEVER... the oem solo seal appears to be single lip
In addition, just looking at the spring its just itching to pop out, so you MUST use a husky seal sleeve (or coke can trick) to install. Personally, if it was my saw I would have put an am double lip in there (or oem 288 seal) ...single lip worries me.
ALSO, confusing things, the solo pto crankcase is NOT even all the around the outer lip of the seal. I put the seal flush with the height of the crankcase best I could.
Flywheel side is 15 24 7mm
just looking at it, there's no reason for the seal to be 7mm thick. 5mm would probably work fine. This was double lip so I was less worried. In a pinch it seems like these are reasonably available but I can't find exactly what other saw this might go on. 15mm means 6202 (or in the solo's case 6302) ... but a 24mm seal pocket width might be a tad odd. 268/272 is 26mm, so that won't do. other ideas??? the 24 od is definitely the trick here.
if anyone has anything they'd like to add go for it.