Automatic Trans Rear seal leak? Hard to replace?

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Automatic Trans Rear seal leak? Hard to replace?

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Anyone know how hard it is to replace the rear main seal on the automatic trans of a spider. I remember when I bought my car, the PO did say the rear seal has a leak. Now that I've been driving the car I noticed a good amount of trans fluid under the car. A while ago I threw some stop leak in and it seemed to be better but recently when i had the front of the car jacked up, I noticed when I came back in the morning the floor would have trans fluid on it. Is this something a home mechanic without a lift can do or better left to a shop? How much money would a shop charge you think? Thanks.
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No one knows? :shock:
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Re: Automatic Trans Rear seal leak? Hard to replace?

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the seal isnt expensive
undo the 4 bolts for the driveshaft and 2 at the berring,and pull off the tranz
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pry out the seal with a screwdriver
tap in a new one"flush" and put it all back together,top off the fluid.joe
when you do everything correct people arent sure youve done anything at all (futurama)
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