Thread: Rear main seal
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Old 07-29-2005, 04:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Johnhef
Verify its not your headgasket seeping oil at the rear of the head, thats far more common than rear main seals leaking.
I had a leaking valve cover gasket that only leaked in the back. I would have bet my life it was the rear main seal because I had just replaced the one in the front. It was by pure mistake I noticed it.
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