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 Posted: 11-19-2005 02:30 am
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jason fain wrote: (Snip)...  has never seen one with a machined looking groove near the rear seal.  The grove sits just on the inside of the rear seal and we are wondering if this was something the factory did or someones idea of a oil deterent from the rear seal.
Jason,

A groove on the OD of the seal journal?   I've never seen such a feature on Lotus' version of the 9XX engines.

Tim Engel