The seal is lubricated by oil splashing around on the timing chain and gears, but, on a fresh install, that ain't there yet. If you install them dry, friction between the seal, and crank, will burn the seal in short order, and the seal will never really seal. I pack the seal itself with grease. (the area that rides on the crank) That way, there is some lubrication at initial startup, and ya don't smoke the seal in the first 30 seconds.

 

Sounds good, I’ll give that a whirl. If it still leaks I think that rules out bad seals and it’s just the balancer.

 

If you are going with a carb, could you just bypass the regulator and use a pump something like this>
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...fuel+pump,6256

My 87 was orig. carbed so things are different. But I just used an external electric pump on mine.

 

I think? I dont know if I can just swap the pump unit with one of those I’ve never messed with an actual pump swap, just swapped assemblies.

 

Me neither on a dodge. Did it on my corvette and it was pretty simple.

But on my 87 dakota it different from yours. It had a mech. pump on the engine, so with the new engine, I just used an external low pressure carter fuel pump.

 

I could maybe run an external pump im just not sure how I would run the hoses into the tank

 

Im just guessing, but I would think you could leave everything as is, and just cut the existing hose and place pump in between.
That being said, if you can stay internal, IMO its better then what I have.

 

Yeah I think an internal will last longer but the external will get me going until I can figure out or Jerry rig something to work.

 

Actually can’t I just remove the pump from the assembly and run a hose to the bottom of the tank connected to the outlet for the original pump, then just have an inline pump?

 

Yup. If you can, mount the sock on the bottom of the line. (if there is one....)