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by **solara driver99** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:30 pm

i will be pulling the motor in my 99 solara out this weekend to put in a rear main seal. It has 133000 miles on it and i was wondering if anyone know what else i should replace since the motor will be out and it will be easy to do? Any suggestions would be great!

by **Midias** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:03 pm

not sure if it is manual or auto but if it was manual I would change the clutch. If it is a V6 I would check the rear head and change any gaskets that look old. Finally while it is out change all 6 plugs because they can be a bitch on the V6.

Edit

If your timing belt has 130k on it change that as well with a new water pump.

by **solara driver99** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:42 pm

its just a 4 cyl

by **Midias** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:58 pm

I would still do the timing belt if it is old

by **solara driver99** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:00 pm

im going to do a timeing belt and a water pump too

by **TadS** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:55 pm

Why are you pulling the motor to do the rear main? I was able the do the job on my Celica w/o pulling it. Like Midas said it you're doing a manual go ahead and do the clutch. Same deal with the timing belt / water pump you can do it in the car. Heh. If I had the whole motor out of a car, it would be getting a rebuild, but I wouldn’t want to be jacking around pulling a motor for anything less.

by **solara driver99** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:37 pm

pulled the motor out staurday and change the rear main seal, new water pump and all the belts and put it back in took around 7 hours

by **Midias** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:10 am

solara driver99 wrote:pulled the motor out staurday and change the rear main seal, new water pump and all the belts and put it back in took around 7 hours

7 hours nice job glad you got it all done.

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