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remove transmission, remove rear main seal, install new rear main seal, install transmission.
You can either pull the engine out or remove the transmission and flywheel to install the rear seal. It slides over the back of the CRANKSHAFT on the back of the engine. Must remove 1 or the other to replace seal.
You have to start by pulling out the transmission, this will give you access to the rear cover of the engine, and the rear crankshaft oil seal. You have to remove the rear engine cover once exposed, then you can pop out the old seal and press in the new one! And re-install transmission.
The engine rear main seal can only be replaced with the engine or transmission out of the vehicle.
It all depends on how bad the rear main seal is destroyed
You will have to replace the rear main seal. This will require that the transmission be removed.
If it is the rear main seal that is leaking, the tranny must be separated from the engine housing.
rear main seal
It is an oil seal at the rear of the engine where the crankshaft comes out of the engine block for the clutch disk or flex plate to bolt on to.
No you can access the rear main seal by removing the Transmission, flywheel etc
Not really, you need to drop the oil pan to get to the rear main. You may be able to install a new seal by dropping the cap for the rear main. You may have to loosen all the main caps and pull the crank down just a bit. Install the seal and re-torque the main caps.
You must remove the transmission are engine to replace the rear main seal.