Re: Removing Rear Main Seal? [was: Need Fast Help: Stuck RemovingTranny]

["T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>]

Neal,

The rear main seal (the one on the engine) is easy. Just pull off the
pressure plate and the big thin metal plate behind it and then unbolt the
seal carrier (6 bolts?) and use a hammer to tap the old seal out. Then
clean the sealing surface and lubricate then tap in the new seal. Then
re-install the seal carrier on the block. You don't need to drain the
engine oil.

The tranny mainshaft seal is harder but not too bad. I drilled two small
holes about the same diameter as half the seal lip width. Then I screwed
two wood screws in to the holes and used an ordinary carpenter's hammer to
"pull out" the screws as if they were nails. It took a few tries but
pretty soon the seal popped right out with one of the screws.

The pushrod seal is about the same difficulty. Mine was completely shot..
I tried threading a slightly larger tap in to it to yank it out but it
just shredded the seal so I ended up carefully using the tip of a flat
head screwdriver to pop the tap the seal out with a hammer.

HTH,

-Toby

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'87 16v

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Neal Tovsen wrote:

> First off, THANK YOU to the millions of people who smacked me upside the
> head and forced me to consider the fact that I might have forgotten a bolt
> when removing the transmission! Yes, it was the little one behind the drive
> flange.
>
> If you're following the issue, I figured out what the problem was. One of
> the little tabs on the thrust plate (is this the same as a "throw-out
> bearing"?) was broken off, and probably causing all sorts of hell with my
> clutch. It's really too bad, 'cause the rest of the clutch disc and pressure
> plate look like they're in awesome shape. The whole thing is about 2 years
> old.
>
> OK. I'm now staring at a rear main seal. Potterman sent me a new one to put
> in, but I can't see a good way to get the old one out. Any ideas? I'm afraid
> to hack at it and end up causing more problems.
>
> Once it's out, can I just push the new one in? I don't have "VW Special Tool
> #blah-blah"...
>
> Neal
>
>
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