Hello fellow Wheel Horse fans. My first post! I just joined this forum yesterday in hope that I can learn some things about my 1969 Wheel Horse Workhorse 700. I just bought it off of an old friend that quit using it about five years ago and its been sitting ever since. I have a Tecumseh H70 130042 aluminum engine on it and I've been cleaning it up and refurbishing a few things on it, like rebuilding the carb and cleaning up the points etc. I have it running very well after all that work. But, today after starting it and driving it around the farm a bit, I noticed after I parked it in the garage I have a bad oil leak on the flywheel side. It's obviously coming out the crankshaft seal. My question to the forum, can I slip the crank out of the block without removing the piston? Can I remove the side plate, unbolt the connecting rod and wiggle that darn crankshaft out of there and leave that piston in place? That way I can knock the bushing and seal out of the flywheel side, replace both bushings and seals and I'm on my way. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Andy