...irony. The thing I ABSOLUTELY needed was to see the rear main seal cover itself be removed, because mine just WON'T and I need to know if mine is just needing more prying or if I missed something to get it loose. You skipped it. That ONE step I needed. :D I mean, I guess it must USUALLY be easy because everyone says "remove it, then here's the directions to remove the seal from the bracket itself", but mine will NOT come free in the first place. Oh well. I'll keep looking!
@@ahsansubhan-zy1mo Thanks for checking! Yeah, I had to wrestle CAREFULLY with it for a bit before I decided to do the 'drill a hole into the old seal's metal band and pull it out that way' trick. I slowly drilled a hole, then put in a self-tapping screw that was short enough that it wouldn't damage anything accidentally. Once that was solidly in, I used a pry-bar that was NOT resting on the seal's edge to pop the seal free finally. Once that was done I was able to pull the rest of it free and clean the hole. I was almost about to put come-along straps or maybe stainless-steel wire rope through/around a few bolts on the upper cylinder head to hold it safely without the jack under its oil pan that I was using for now. I was almost about to do that and then pull the oil pan down and remove the seal's housing /entirely/, but the 'good-threaded self-tapping screw' option finally worked for me. It was SERIOUSLY stuck in there. I mean, my car is 26 years old now so I'm not really shocked by that but it was SUPER-stuck in there! I suppose I'll find out if I did it perfectly only once I have it all reassembled and get to run it, but I'll see how that goes! So FAR, at least, it seems to be all good.
Very sorry that footage either got lost or I forgot to film but once the bolts were removed the cover came right off yours must have been corroded or sealed in place I hope you got it! Thanks for watching.
@@ElectronicMechanic50 It's fine! And yeah, it had been leaking *notably* but not terribly, so I think it 'cooked a bunch of oil into place' over time. It would NOT budge for simple efforts to remove it. For the record; I was told that an aluminum or maybe brass paint-can key (with some painter's tape on the prying-side just to be SURE it won't damage anything) could free up most of the rear main seals. The crankshaft side is steel, the outer-mounting is aluminum, so 'paint-canning it open from the inside edge' might work. I couldn't find one, and in my rush to work around freezing weather I gave up and drilled the seal in the middle of its metal band and pried it out that way. I was desperate for the 'RMS removal to be in video format' because mine was SO STUCK that I thought surely I had a lip somewhere that I was going to damage, or maybe my exact model of car had a variation of the crankshaft-seal collar and doing what others had done to pry out a stubborn seal might have damaged my engine...but nope, my D16Y5 (1996 Civic HX) rear main seal was just STUUUUUUUCK. Once it popped free a little it was 100x easier to get the rest out, I just 'worked around the edge' tugging it out a bit, doing that around and around again and again until I felt good about just yanking it out. Pop! Out it came, no scratches to be seen. I cleaned the rear-seal mounting thing and the crankshaft (though the seal-frame was 20x nastier than the crankshaft...I think only the edge was leaking and not the shaft) thoroughly, wiping it out with FedPro "Tub o' Towels" heavy-duty cleaning wipes, then went over it again with brake cleaner spray sprayed on a (CLEAN and NOT fuzzy!) cotton cloth. Once it was all spotless...well, that very moment it started to freezing-rain so I had to pop painter's tape over the whole seal-opening to make sure it didn't rust, then close up for the day/week. I'm hoping to get some 40+ degree weather in the next day or three to try and put the replacement into place. We'll see. But I was just whining about the video because that was THE THING I was here for and I was watching it like, "Disassemble, disassemble, we're almost there...and there it is, replaced!" and I was like, "NOOOOOoooooo!" That's all there was to it. :)
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...irony. The thing I ABSOLUTELY needed was to see the rear main seal cover itself be removed, because mine just WON'T and I need to know if mine is just needing more prying or if I missed something to get it loose. You skipped it. That ONE step I needed. :D I mean, I guess it must USUALLY be easy because everyone says "remove it, then here's the directions to remove the seal from the bracket itself", but mine will NOT come free in the first place. Oh well. I'll keep looking!
u get it out?
@@ahsansubhan-zy1mo Thanks for checking! Yeah, I had to wrestle CAREFULLY with it for a bit before I decided to do the 'drill a hole into the old seal's metal band and pull it out that way' trick. I slowly drilled a hole, then put in a self-tapping screw that was short enough that it wouldn't damage anything accidentally. Once that was solidly in, I used a pry-bar that was NOT resting on the seal's edge to pop the seal free finally. Once that was done I was able to pull the rest of it free and clean the hole.
I was almost about to put come-along straps or maybe stainless-steel wire rope through/around a few bolts on the upper cylinder head to hold it safely without the jack under its oil pan that I was using for now. I was almost about to do that and then pull the oil pan down and remove the seal's housing /entirely/, but the 'good-threaded self-tapping screw' option finally worked for me.
It was SERIOUSLY stuck in there. I mean, my car is 26 years old now so I'm not really shocked by that but it was SUPER-stuck in there!
I suppose I'll find out if I did it perfectly only once I have it all reassembled and get to run it, but I'll see how that goes! So FAR, at least, it seems to be all good.
Very sorry that footage either got lost or I forgot to film but once the bolts were removed the cover came right off yours must have been corroded or sealed in place I hope you got it! Thanks for watching.
@@ElectronicMechanic50 It's fine! And yeah, it had been leaking *notably* but not terribly, so I think it 'cooked a bunch of oil into place' over time. It would NOT budge for simple efforts to remove it.
For the record; I was told that an aluminum or maybe brass paint-can key (with some painter's tape on the prying-side just to be SURE it won't damage anything) could free up most of the rear main seals. The crankshaft side is steel, the outer-mounting is aluminum, so 'paint-canning it open from the inside edge' might work. I couldn't find one, and in my rush to work around freezing weather I gave up and drilled the seal in the middle of its metal band and pried it out that way.
I was desperate for the 'RMS removal to be in video format' because mine was SO STUCK that I thought surely I had a lip somewhere that I was going to damage, or maybe my exact model of car had a variation of the crankshaft-seal collar and doing what others had done to pry out a stubborn seal might have damaged my engine...but nope, my D16Y5 (1996 Civic HX) rear main seal was just STUUUUUUUCK. Once it popped free a little it was 100x easier to get the rest out, I just 'worked around the edge' tugging it out a bit, doing that around and around again and again until I felt good about just yanking it out. Pop! Out it came, no scratches to be seen.
I cleaned the rear-seal mounting thing and the crankshaft (though the seal-frame was 20x nastier than the crankshaft...I think only the edge was leaking and not the shaft) thoroughly, wiping it out with FedPro "Tub o' Towels" heavy-duty cleaning wipes, then went over it again with brake cleaner spray sprayed on a (CLEAN and NOT fuzzy!) cotton cloth. Once it was all spotless...well, that very moment it started to freezing-rain so I had to pop painter's tape over the whole seal-opening to make sure it didn't rust, then close up for the day/week. I'm hoping to get some 40+ degree weather in the next day or three to try and put the replacement into place. We'll see.
But I was just whining about the video because that was THE THING I was here for and I was watching it like, "Disassemble, disassemble, we're almost there...and there it is, replaced!" and I was like, "NOOOOOoooooo!" That's all there was to it. :)
Literally she didn't show himself removing it wtf 🤌
What seal did you use on the rear main. Honda wands $63 for it in Canada
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