Rear Main Oil Seal
#1
Rear Main Oil Seal
I am going to be replacing my clutch as soon as I get a couple of warm days and was planning on a little preventative maintenance while I have the transmission out. I'm replacing the motor mounts and the shift linkage bushings with ES parts and was wondering if I should replace the rear main oil seal. It's not leaking now but I do have 151,000 miles on the clock. Should I bother? If I do should I use OEM or aftermarket?
#5
The belts are fairly new and I hadn't planned on pulling the front of the engine apart. I was talking about things I should do while the transmission is out. What are common replacement parts at the rear of the engine that would otherwise require pulling the transmission or would be easier to get to with it out?
#7
OEM seals fosho. Likely it wont develop a leak anytime soon but if it is easy then go ahead and prevent a future headache I suppose but that can be said about a lot of stuff I guess. Mine is OEM and I dont expect it to leak for another 50k or so
#9
I was looking at the price difference and it's only $2. So yeah, I'll be going OEM.
#10
I would do the half moon seal on the upper oil pan and add a decent amount of silicon/rtv as that is where mine leaks and seems to be a problem area on most machines. You also have to pull the pans anyway to get to the RMS, but i am not 100% on that.
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