Mike,

I have two aft seals facing out and fore seal facing in. "facing" to me indicates which way the spring is.

I am about 650 hours on these seals and zero water ingress and zero drop in oil level. It was probably a bad installation but previously I did it "the Amel way" and had to haul out again at around 300 hours due to milky c drive oil.

PS - where are you getting the work done in NZ? We will be there in November and will be due for a haul out then.
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Scott 
2007 A54 #69
SV Tengah
http://www.svtengah.com