halocline
Contributor
That squared off crush seal replaced a regular o-ring (013 I think) at some point in the SP oem rebuild kits. The seal or o-ring seals the HP seat, and you have to carefully set the o-ring in place; if it's crooked, the reg will leak around the seat with a loud scary hiss. My guess is that enough ill-prepared SP techs couldn't figure it out easily enough so they replaced it with the square profile crush seal, which fits great and is fairly idiot proof to install. The o-ring works fine, just make sure you seat it, pushing it evenly into it's spot against the lip down in the HP chamber and you'll be fine.