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Well, I hate to break it to everyone, short of a miracle you cannot change the rear main seal with the old chinese finger method. MB was smart and put a stake in the center of the oil pan groove and in the block groove making it impossible to change the oil sel without removing the engine from the car, and taking the crank out.
Secondly, if someone were to remove the trans and flywheel, and just lower the oil pan, how are you going to get sealer back in there to reseal the oil pan. Seems senseless to me to go through all that work too fix a rear main seal leak and create an oil pan leak. I've taken the aluminum oil pan off the engine without taking the block out of the car. Not real time consuming either, and it saves from having to remove the trans from the car, BUT, if you have clutch chatter as well, why wouldn't you pull the engine. You can replace the clutch while the engine is out....kill two birds with one stone and the job wouldn't be half-fast done. Changing just the lower half of the seal on a car with 400K on the clock is like putting a band-aid on a broken leg. If the engine runs good, whats the point of rebuilding it. Its not like it takes forever to take the engine out, even if it had to be removed again in another 100K miles for the actual rebuild. Just my thought.... |
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Thanks!
Well it looks like I am going to have to start thinking about pulling the engine and shaft inorder to get this leak fixed. The best idea sounds like parking the nose downhill for a few more years! It's been leaking for about 6 years now so another 6 shouldn't harm it too much.
As far as selling it to pacify my neighbors - yeah they'd love it if I did that but there is no way I am parting with this car. I want to see how long I can get this thing to run - I'm betting over a million miles. What's this texas Schindig? I'm pretty new to this board and haven't heard anything about it. Thanks! John M |
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Ben, thanks for the encouraging words.. however, that low mileage engine is not the turbo... and it does seem proper if I put the extra hp in it to put the five speed behind it... Don't you think ?
Thanks for listing your number... I will use it at some point.. need to diagnose this oil consuption problem first to see if I have an excuse to put the 300 in ..., Greg |
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MCcallum_John, this should pretty well fill you in who,what,when,why and how well it went..
Texas Shindig a success! http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?threadid=32330&highlight=shindig Texas Shindig Texas Diesel Shin-Dig If these don't post to where you can click on them just copy them to your location window.... or do a search for 'shindig' and it will give you these and more,, I think these are the main ones for it... Greg |
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On my 240D manual I also tried the bottom half of the rear oil seal trick when I had my engine out last winter for a broken timing chain repair. It didn't leak a lot before, but it doesn't leak at all now. Changing the clutch is much easier with the engine out, but it took me a day to pull it, and a day+ to reinstall. Bleeding the clutch was the biggest pain outside gettting the Injection Pump timing correct.
Still, I believe if I pulled the engine just to replace the seal, I'd drop the crank and do the whole thing.
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