Tailshaft seal replacement

[Quik03GT]

Hey guys, my car is leaking trans fluid at the tailshaft, I assume just the seal needs to be replaced. How much difficulty is involved in doing this?

thanks!

 

[SeanD1111]

easy. Remove the driveshaft, pop out old seal, pop in new seal, lube input shaft with white lithium grease, re-install driveshaft.

 

[mijo_latino]

Make sure to have something to pound the new seal end evenly. The seal has a nice little coating that squeezes in pretty tight and comes off easy. A nice size socket, or borrow one of those seal install tools from autozone...

oh and make sure to mark your driveshaft so it goes back on balanced right.

 

[Gearbanger 101]

.....and most imprortantly, make sure the rear of your car is elevated higher than the front. Otherwise, you're going to end up with a good portion of your transmission fluid on the ground and all over yourself while you're trying to put the new seal in.

 

[Quik03GT]

Thanks for the tips guys. I'll most likely be doing this job while the car is on a lift, so hopefully that'll make things easier.

 

[GodAmGT00]

Thankfully, the fluid doesn't come out THAT fast, but it does drip...


Since the seal is larger than most people have sockets for, you can also use a small piece of wood, or hard plastic that covers the entire seal.. Just beat on in med. hits, evenly around...

I had thought of this though when I was reading this, your car seems fairly new (if I read 2003 correctly), I wonder why it's leaking so soon...

My last tranny hadn't blow a seal period for nearly 150,000 miles of continuous beating.. Maybe it just went bad?? Do you have any driveline vibrations when you're driving??



JT