"M" belt pulley output shaft oil seal & felt w

I finally got the courage and pulled out the output shaft on my belt pulley. (First time) Easier than I anticipated. A little tapping with wood block and hammer, and out it came. The same with the shaft. All the parts on the shaft came off rather easy using a wood block and hammer. Didn't need a press. Now I have 2 questions.

1. The oil seal. (#49177D) Which way? I have conflicting info on that. My I&T shop manual says the lip should face the bearing, and they're calling it a leather seal. Now, my IH service manual says the lip of leather seal is toward the pulley. Which is the proper way? or does it matter that much. Mine has the lip facing toward the pulley.

2. The felt washer. (#49133D) The oil seals seem to be in abundance, but I'm coming up short on the felt washers. Who has these? I'm thinking I can reuse the old felt washer. Right now it's totally, totally saturated (soaked) with oil, but still has it's good original shape. I see that by squeezing it between several layers of paper towels, the oil can be blotted off. Seems like if I keep doing that, the washer will eventually become drier and more useable. Would that work? But really, I would rather have a new one. The instructions do say to soak the washer in oil before hand, but I feel that mine is a bit too saturated to work properly.

TIA
Patrick
'49M

The oil seal lip needs to face towards the oil. Your local CaseIH dealer should have or can get the felt washer. What I do sometimes with used felt washers is to let them set in my parts cleaning solvent for a while and then squeeze them out, that process gets out a lot of the old oil.

Well then I guess the seal in mine was put in backwards the last time it was serviced. Explains the leak, although not that severe. Thanks NK. I have the felt washer soaking in some diesel now.

Patrick
'49M