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So it has come time to work on my winter beater. I noticed a while ago that the rear main was starting to leak...no surprise (200K miles without a leak...I'm happy). But when I replaced the rear main seal on my EJ22T I used the old big socket and hammer trick. It worked but it was still a pain in the ass. Does anyone know of a good installer/remover for the job? Or anything to make the job easier.

THX

use the old seal as an installer.

Getting it out uses the same trick as with the crank & cam seals.

Are you sure it's the rear main?

The thing is, it's a rare occasion that a Subaru leaks from the rear main. They leak everywhere else , but the rear main is not typical.

Make sure it's not the oil pan or something like that.

I don't want you to go through all that work of replacing the rear main, and then finding out that's not your problem.

Josh,
Thanks! Never thought of that.


It's definitley the rear main. I dropped the tranny last night. There is oil leaking out as it sits. It looks as if it were pressed in wrong before. Its not pressed in evenly. I know the prev owner had it done at a garage...everything else that garage had touched has had one thing or another wrong with it as well. Like the spark plugs that had been replaced and not tightened down (I turned them out with an extension bar - no ratchet!!)

ask the previous owner when it was done, it may be covered under the shops warranty

Just a thing I have. I only do my own work. That is unless I need something machined past what my mills and lathe can do. Besides after seeing all the good work they do I wouldn't take it there.
Not that hard of a job anyway since its a fwd. Already have the tranny out.