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Clean your yoke shaft where it will ride on the new seal. Light fine steel wool or Scotchbrite is good. Then lube it and the seal before you put he driveshaft back in. The seal can be taken out in a number of ways. Collapse it inwards with a punch, an pry it out. Use a seal remover tool [a little crow bar device]. Drill it and use a dent remover. Any common sense means. They are not in there with a death lock. You can tap the new one in evenly...

Originally Posted By: mechtech2 Correct - Replacement spark plugs have tips on BOTH sides. It is the factories that use one side or the other. And it is factory plugs that people often accuse of 'losing' their tips. OK but I'm accusing AcDelco platinums originals which do have a side electrode tab of losing their tip (and increasing gap) and the replacement being the same situation. So I know it really happens. In other cases...

I had it happen to me. BTW kicking the gas tank actually got me home and saved me a tow. They can die in short order if you installed a defective one, and a swift kick in the tank sometimes wakes them up.

I just noticed a leak coming from my rear transmission where the driveshaft connects to the transmission. I assume this is the same type of seal as the rear main seal. How hard is this to replace and what speacialty tools will I need? thanks in advance oh look in my comment for the car its a manual transmission.

They can go to 100k.... I considered changing mine at 55k, but they look pretty good... I'd wait.

Multiple "thuds" or just a single one just as you are about to stop?

Yup exactly. Now I know, it could have been worse. And you're right -- these people really don't know any better. Countless people come in for an inspection and leave paying $500+ for things completely unnecessary.

I have gone away from platinum in everything I own with the exception of my tacoma which used regular copper Denso. Iridium is the only material to consider these days. When you get to this level you cannot tell the difference between NGK and Denso. Both are very good and have worked well in both foreign and domestic in my experiences. As you might already be well aware, Do Not gap iridium plugs. Im the kind of person that I have enough auto...

Thanks guy, I bought a gallon of MMO for 6 dollars at a flea market last summer. I'll use that up. From the sound of it, it wont hurt to use it as much as you want too. Thats what i was worried about, i didnt want to cause harm by running cleaner too often

like any other shaft if it has a groove or other damage it will cause a leak.