...as you're removing it, and drips for a while once it's off. Not a lot of fun, better if you're warned ahead of time.

Don't gouge up the face of the pump cover as you pry it off. I recall it as not coming easy at all to start. The two dowel pins are at like 3 and 9 oclock as I recall, so you know to pry just a little on one side, then just a little on the other, till it's off them.

I used a Sears 1/2" socket; they don't sell big metric, so you can use 1 1/16" which is equal to a 27 mm, the right size for your year if it's a 93 CE as your handle suggests. Pre 90 I think is the break point used 30 mm, 1 3/16".

Score the chrome of the socket where you're going to cut it with a sharp file, so the hacksaw or sawzall blade won't skate around when you try to get it started. About half its stock depth as I recall - - you can eyeball the socket and make sure you leave enough to just take the bolt head. I used the starter technique to break it free, don't crank long. And took clutch cover off and locked a pair of needle nose vise grips onto the flywheel-pressure plate to jam against the bell housing to hold it on retightening.

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• Replace the rear main seal without pulling the engine?, LarryV 93CE, Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:49:03
  • Re: Replace the rear main seal without pulling the engine?, aka oldsaab, Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:09:50
    • Oh, yes, and oil rains down from pump cover..., RayF, Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:43:57 <-- Viewing This Message
      • Re: Oh, yes, and oil rains down from pump cover..., Saabnutt, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:19:38
        • Re: Oh, yes, and oil rains down from pump cover..., turbocon86, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:26:21
        • Re: Oh, yes, and oil rains down from pump cover..., aka oldsaab, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:24:26
  • Been there: yes, very straight forward procedure (n/m), Siegfried, Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:44:35
    • Re: Been there: yes, very straight forward procedure (n/m), Saabnutt, Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:33:18
    • Re: Been there: yes, very straight forward procedure (n/m), turbocon86, Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:19:50
      • Nice write-up indeed., John G, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:37:01
      • Wow, what a write-up, aka Arabiflora, Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:56:21

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