RE: Removing Rear Main Seal? [was: Need Fast Help: Stuck Removing Tranny]

["Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com>]

This a time-honored method, but may I make a suggestion?  Use a sheet metal
screw or a drywall screw in lieu of the wood screw.   Their threads are much
sharper and deeper, and will get a better grip.

Larry  sandiego16V

-----Original Message-----
From: chris gonzalez [mailto:chris24g@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 3:17 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Removing Rear Main Seal? [was: Need Fast Help: Stuck
Removing Tranny]


you can buy a cheapo seal puller ($10) at your local pep boys or kragen
(or whatever they're called over there).
or do what i did:
drill (yes drill) a SMALL pilot hole through the seal (it's only a few
millimeters thick). then get a wood screw and screw a FEW threads in
(just enough to get a good grip on the seal) and then get a pair of
vise grips and yank the seal out. 

chrisg
'82 8v 
'88 16v
http://www.dublife.com

--- Neal Tovsen <sixteen.volt@verizon.net> wrote:
> First off, THANK YOU to the millions of people who smacked me upside
> the
> head and forced me to consider the fact that I might have forgotten a
> bolt
> when removing the transmission! Yes, it was the little one behind the
> drive
> flange.
> 
> If you're following the issue, I figured out what the problem was.
> One of
> the little tabs on the thrust plate (is this the same as a "throw-out
> bearing"?) was broken off, and probably causing all sorts of hell
> with my
> clutch. It's really too bad, 'cause the rest of the clutch disc and
> pressure
> plate look like they're in awesome shape. The whole thing is about 2
> years
> old.
> 
> OK. I'm now staring at a rear main seal. Potterman sent me a new one
> to put
> in, but I can't see a good way to get the old one out. Any ideas? I'm
> afraid
> to hack at it and end up causing more problems.
> 
> Once it's out, can I just push the new one in? I don't have "VW
> Special Tool
> #blah-blah"...
> 
> Neal
> 
> 
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