My 96 leaked so bad I wanted to put a diaper on it. Never had the time/money/energy to do head gaskets.

 

Not angry Mad Cow, but dissappointed.
Main reason of post is to encourage seal renewal so no one else suffers this
fate.
Regarding your comment of "weight savings"??? If that was an issue, why would they not assemble "dished side" out & shorten crank snout saving that much more steel???? Sounds like you have a terminal case of "rose coloured glasses" more than most.

I, do like the diaper idea...maybe Huggies should look into this market niche.
It would go along with all the people that rebuild ABS modules, Air Bag modules, Pixel dashes, etc etc

Cheers
TheCounty

 

Why don't you ask the engineer who designed that bit? Are you a mechanical engineer that specializes in engine design? You don't know why things were done the way they were, hell I don't know and neither does anybody else here because none of us were there when the crank pulley was drafted up. But you can't possibly be insinuating that the VAG engineers that designed this motor overlooked it because of incompetence and/or malice. Sounds like you have a case of Dunning-Kruger

I still don't understand why you're so salty about a faulty seal falling out, replace it and move on with your life. It's nobody's fault that the seal fell out, but you're still trying your damnedest to pin the blame on someone for some reason. If you really want to blame someone, blame the person who calibrated the machine that measures the O.D of the seal to make sure it's in spec. You can take it further too, maybe it's actually the fault of the guy who calibrated the machine that measures the components of the seal measuring machine, maybe the guy who calibrated the seal measuring machine did everything by the book but the machine itself was wrong. Or maybe it's the guy who calibrates the machine that measures the individual components of the individual components of the machine that measures the seal.

With modern supply chains, the blame possibilities are endless! It's like ***** Wonka's river of chocolate, except instead of excited children there's one angry person, and instead of a river it's actually just a crank seal. Ok maybe that was a bad analogy.

 

That is a good intention, but the seals typically don't just fall out, actually to the point of it being a nearly non-existent problem. Is there any chance the seal wasn't OEM, such as something made in Bangladesh?