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TeamDR1665Jun-23-08 07:53 AM
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$370 sounds decent for rear main replacement. The seal is really only about $10 and takes maybe 5 minutes to install, but it's a PITA to get to. Some would drop the trans, others would pull the engine.

Dropping the transmission (about six hours your first time):
- Lift the car and remove the front wheels.
- Drain the transmission fluid. (2.1qts capacity)
- Remove lower bolt in strut fork.
- Unbolt lower control arm where it mounts unibody.
- Leave bastard nut on the outer end of the CV and use brake rotor as handle to pull/pop the CV out of the diff. (Or use a pry bar to coerce it from the diff.
- Free the clutch slave from the front of the bell housing.
- Remove your battery, battery tray, intake pipe.
- Disconnect the shifter cables on the top of the trans.
- Support the trans from below with a jack (use a piece of wood to protect the cast aluminum bellhousing).
- Take the block-to-bellhousing bolts loose.
- Take the (2) trans mount center bolts loose.
- Size up the situation and take care with separation of the trans from the block. You don't want to just have it fall on the floor. Cast aluminum is a bitch to weld back up.

Since you're going to go through all that trouble, you ought to consider a new clutch and TOB while you're at it. It's even easier to replace than a headlight bulb once you're in there. Give SBC a call and see what they can do for you in terms of a nice street clutch.

Have fun.

  

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Unknown Oil Leak [View all] , Nisshoku81, Jun-12-08 11:34 AM
  RE: Unknown Oil Leak, RoninEclipse2G, Jun-12-08 11:44 AM, #1
RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-12-08 11:54 AM, #2
      RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-15-08 12:18 AM, #3
           RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Kirby, Jun-16-08 07:19 AM, #4
                RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Moderatorteklein, Jun-16-08 08:57 AM, #5
                     RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-16-08 02:22 PM, #6
                          RE: Unknown Oil Leak, eclipsegs96, Jun-21-08 01:27 AM, #7
                               RE: Unknown Oil Leak, bzoss, Jun-21-08 10:57 AM, #8
                                    RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-21-08 03:39 PM, #9
                                         RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-21-08 03:53 PM, #10
                                              RE: Unknown Oil Leak, eclipsegs96, Jun-22-08 04:41 AM, #11
                                                   RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-22-08 05:44 PM, #12
                                                   RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-22-08 05:46 PM, #13
                                                        RE: Unknown Oil Leak, TeamDR1665, Jun-23-08 07:53 AM #14
                                                             RE: Unknown Oil Leak, Nisshoku81, Jun-30-08 07:26 AM, #15
                                                                  RE: Unknown Oil Leak, BigRedMonster, Aug-07-08 07:20 AM, #16

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