Oil seal assembly direction, any experienced rebuild help appreciated!

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Ok, I rebuilt my water pump with the service manual I hand. The instruction doesn't say clear which side of the oil seal goes to which bearing side and the water seal side. My mistake that didn't notice when disassembled the oil seal.

Oil seal has two surface sides, one with spring and one flat with yellow paint on it. I assembled as the spring side face to the bearing and the flat face to the water seal.

The reason I asked because mine occasionally leaks few drops of oil through the weep hole.

For the last week, it didn't leak a drop of oil. I just changed my engine oil and today it got a sip drop of oil through the weep hole as I checked.


I went through many times in the instruction, it just said to assemble the oil seal diameter match to the bearing side but didn't say which side of the oil seal to match up the bearing or water seal.

Really appreciate any input to this as I'm kinda frustrated to this water pump oil leak, thanks again!
 
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