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

[Anthony Pelletier <vwnuts@yahoo.com>]

For getting out the rear main, the $10 seal puller
from sears works good.  

Does anyone on the list have a method for installing
the rear main seal.  I always get nervous doing this
cause its so much work to get back there if you screw
up.  I've used a hammer & a punch in the past.  Is
there a better way?

Tony

--- "Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com> wrote:
> 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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