anyone run into this? i woud be hapy if some shops who work on multiple cars a day could comment. im at a loss with my oil consumtion problem. and BTW, there is a light coating of fluid inside the "bellhousing"


[Modified by johnzm, 3:56 AM 9/30/2002]

 

Maybe if the fw was a big pos and unbalanced, but a decent one should have no effect.

 

The only way that it would cause it to leak is if the installer ripped the seal on the installation of it...

other than that, the tranny seal has nothing to do with the flywheel...

 

well my rear main is spitting oil everywhere (i think) it might also be the trans side seal, but its pouring out after only a 5 minute drive! i thought it was the oilpan, but ive sealed it up all good now and its still pouring out on the bottom of hte trans. the only thing thats been done to this motor (to my knowledge, it was an HMO motor) was the lightened flywheel that it came with. its a toda, BTW. anyone else experience this?

 

why not just replace the seal. its a <20 part. But pretty labor intensive.

The helms desribes a method without pulling the motor or the crank for that matter.

 

i wasnt plannong on pulling the motor o cank. just pulling the trans and takin the flywheel off. has anyone replaced a rear main before? did u guys take off the plate around it or just pull the rear main out of it?

 

pull flywheel, then pull "plate" off, then replace seal, then reassemble.

You will notice a grove on the crank where the original seal was. This is where the seal wore into the crank. Make sure to put the new seal in as to not let the seal follow that groove.

 

wont it eventually get in that groove? and then will it start to leak if it does?

 

No. The seal is held in the end plate with a "press fit" just press it in less or more so that the new seal doesnt ride in the old groove.