Are you hearing a click noise when you turn it? If so, it is on all the way. Once you connect to motor and then pull converter toward flywheel you will no longer hear the clicking.

I'd use the standard Ford Seal. Teflon is good, but it will gouge the crank over time -- the rubber seal sometimes does this but not too bad. Teflon would be worse.

Bob


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