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I soaked the felt seal in oil for 5 minutes, then compressed it with my high pressure quick grip clamp (272kg of force) between two pieces of wood. I left it for about 30 minutes.


I removed the seal from the clamp and very quickly got it in before it started to expand. I nipped it in the middle to make it into a kind of plus shape first of all, and then fed it in all round.


When it was pretty much all in, I took a socket from my socket set that has a slightly smaller diameter than the clutch shaft, and used the socket to keep the seal in place while I worked in one little bit that wasn’t quite in.


I’ll take another picture with the seal on the shaft tomorrow. It seems to fit fine.


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