Second, the rear main seal is a seal for the main crank shaft bearings in your engine. The rear main seal is always on the opposite the side of your engine as the pulleys and belts. So the “rear” in rear main seal refers to the seal’s location on your engine, and not necessarily relative to your vehicle. This means that the front of the engine can be facing either the passenger or driver’s side of the vehicle. With modern front wheel drive cars, and some all-wheel drive vehicles the engine can be mounted transversely in the vehicle. On a rear wheel or 4 wheel drive vehicle the engine is mounted with its front (the side with all the pulleys and belts) towards the front of the car. This can be confusing today because the rear of the engine isn’t always at the rear of your engine bay. Let’s first break down the name to see what we can learn about the rear main seal.įirst, the rear main seal is at the rear of your engine. It is buried deep, usually under a lot of protective covers, wires, hoses and unfortunately, the bell housing of your transmission. If you pop your hood and start looking around for the rear main seal, you aren’t going to have much luck seeing it.
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The rear main seal is a seal in your engine that is very important and usually difficult to reach. Here at BlueDevil we’re hoping to change that myth.
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We’ve only heard horror stories about friends who had great reliable vehicles that developed a rear main seal leak and suddenly their car was only fit for a junk yard. Having a problem with the rear main seal in your vehicle can be a scary thing, mostly because many of us don’t entirely know what that seal is or does.