Just tap it out, give it a little tappy tap tap

"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario) 07/16/2018 at 23:20 • Filed to: Project69

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I finally got the top half of the rear main seal out after cussing and hitting it for way too long. Apparently it should be relatively easy to tap on one end to push it through and out the other side. Well not this bitch. After many swear words and a broken brass punch I looked up other methods for extraction. I ended up losening all the main caps to drop the crank a little. This finally gave me enough give to get the damn thing out.

That’s one mutilated end. I tightened all the cap bolts, installed the new seal, and put in the new oil pump. I’m glad to be at the point wear things are going back together. I’m hoping to have the ‘vette off stands by the end of the month, but knowing how things usually go it’ll probably end up being sometime in August. Yay for progress though!

DipodomysDeserti > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/16/2018 at 23:43

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lone_liberal > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/16/2018 at 23:47

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Are you allowed to have an old Chevy V8 that doesn’t leak from the rear main seal? What’s next sealed valve covers?

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > lone_liberal 07/16/2018 at 23:51

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Hopefully. We’ll find out I guess. Wait, valve cover seals, that’s brilliant! Why has no one thought of this?

lone_liberal > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/16/2018 at 23:57

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I just assumed GM had stock in Oil-Dri.

wafflesnfalafel > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/17/2018 at 00:23

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looks like a bone some dog has been chewing on...

BigBlock440 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/17/2018 at 00:47

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Maybe they come out new, or maybe even when they start leaking, but by the time you actually get around to changing them, the rear main does not come out. One of mine I changed with the engine out, it also involved substantially loosening the bearing caps and crank. Actually, no, I’m remembering wrong, it came out fine, but putting the new one in was a different story. My other leaky rear main I declined to address, even when I had the transmission out because of my experiences with the first .

pip bip - choose Corrour > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 07/17/2018 at 04:57

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leaking rear main is a feature not a fault