Oil seal and sleeve installation tool

摘要

A tool is disclosed for assembling a polytetrafluoroethylene shaft seal to a wear or service sleeve while simultaneously forming the polytetrafluoroethylene wafers into a desired configuration. The seal is formed and introduced onto the sleeve with a single reciprocation of the tool. The tool includes a series of specially arranged surfaces having different diameters for forming the wafers of the seal into a frustoconical shape, aligning the seal and sleeve, and inserting the sleeve into the seal.