Serious Rear Main Seal Question, please help guys

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Feb 1, 2005 | 07:11 PM

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Wait a second, should I be removing the plate around the rear main seal when i do this? Cause I havent been...

Could that be part of the problem

Feb 1, 2005 | 07:35 PM

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It would be the problem. Let's start from the begining. Remove the tranny, pop out the rear main seal. Remove all the 10mm bolts at that hold the rear main seal plate. Get a flat head screwdrive, pry around the edge and remove the plate. Be very carefull with the plate it's made out of aluminum(you don't want to break it). Clean off the old Fipg, Apply Fipg through the plate, just put enough. Install rear main seal plate and then rear main seal. Hopefully this will help you out. Let me know how's everything goes.
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Feb 1, 2005 | 07:37 PM

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Wow thanks man, so I install the plate before installing the new seal?

Feb 1, 2005 | 08:23 PM

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Yeah, Install the plate and then the seal.
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Feb 2, 2005 | 12:45 PM

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I don't trust anything besides toyota parts.

This is the creed we should all adhere to.

Wyatt, I plan to have a shop do this repair for me in the near future as I plan to also have them install a new tranny mount and Lextreme TC at that time. The price I was quoted was $550 for rear main seal, oil pan gasket, install new TC and tranny mount. Of course I'll bring in the TC and tranny mount myself. Let us know how this goes...

Feb 2, 2005 | 03:24 PM

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Good deal man, hopefully it wont come down to bringing it to a shop, Ive never ever brought any if my cars to a shop before, and having them do this job would force me to take the money out of my college fund

Thanks for the support man. Oh yea one more thing, JPI how flush foes the seal have to be to the block, or should it be pushed in a little bit?

PS. If any one wants a pictorial on how to drop the manual tranny and do a clutch, just ask.,..

Feb 2, 2005 | 06:50 PM

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a how to with pics never hurts. it can always be helpful. case and point

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Feb 3, 2005 | 03:41 PM

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Alright, before I buy everything, lemme triple check what I need

-Toyota part 90311-90006 Rear main seal
-Toyota FIPG
-Redisleeve crankshaft repair sleeve

Also some one make this clear for me, HOW MUCH DOES THE SEAL SIT INTO THE OPENING, should it be flush or not