haydenm315
SHO Member
I'm doing a clutch job soon. My car has been leaking from the rear main seal forever. I can't seem to find this part anywhere.. What the heck am I supposed to do?
Discontinued parts - who has them?
- Thread starter haydenm315
- Start date
Disclaimer: Links on this page pointing to Amazon, eBay and other sites may include affiliate code. If you click them and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission.
Racer X
SHO Pilot, Retired
projectSHO89
SHOless In St L
Available at any auto parts store from Fel-Pro.
Steve
Steve
St Louis SHO
Rollin' coal
Steve is right, and Hamal is correct as well. The rear main seal is one of the easiest parts to find. Any autozone should have it as well.
- James
- James
Troywakeling
New Member
Most things you can find aftermarket for these cars like mentioned above. I dont even bother with the dealer anymore, everything ive ever called on they say was discontinued back in 2002
which is ridiculous seeing where the car would have only been 7 yrs old. They like to say its because it was a limited production car but the truth is they do it with every model no longer in production. Ford dealers are pretty much useless for these cars, most wont even work on them and if they do quote you will try to scare you away with an astronomical price. This is one dept I give props to toyota on, they dont usually discontinue anything except accessories I can still order parts for 70s landcruisers, 80s trucks etc.
which is ridiculous seeing where the car would have only been 7 yrs old. They like to say its because it was a limited production car but the truth is they do it with every model no longer in production. Ford dealers are pretty much useless for these cars, most wont even work on them and if they do quote you will try to scare you away with an astronomical price. This is one dept I give props to toyota on, they dont usually discontinue anything except accessories I can still order parts for 70s landcruisers, 80s trucks etc.
Last edited:
SHOtimer
#2910
Most things you can find aftermarket for these cars like mentioned above. I dont even bother with the dealer anymore, everything ive ever called on they say was discontinued back in 2002
You must have a bad parts department... I have always had great luck with my parts guy, if Ford has the part discontinued, he finds it and gets it to me.
Regarding the rear main, are you looking for the circular seal or the paper gasket that seals the aluminum cover which houses the rear main (ie: rear carrier gaskets)?
When I redid my 3.2, RCM is where I got that.
Doug
revhardSHO
SHO Member
Are you still running stage 2 cams...?
Troywakeling
New Member
Yeah they do suck, I usually just get the part number and run it on partsvoice.com to see if any other dealers nationwide still have any stock.
haydenm315
SHO Member
still running the stage II cams. I jumped to conclusions too early last night as shonut said they didn't have them and I was looking in the wrong place on rock auto. I wanted to delete the thread to keep from looking stupid but was unable to 
I'm thinking about going with the clutchmasters stage I and ceramic through shonut for $485. Just have to do my research and see what people on here have to say about that clutch.
I'm thinking about going with the clutchmasters stage I and ceramic through shonut for $485. Just have to do my research and see what people on here have to say about that clutch.
Brett
SHOs before HOs
still running the stage II cams. I jumped to conclusions too early last night as shonut said they didn't have them and I was looking in the wrong place on rock auto. I wanted to delete the thread to keep from looking stupid but was unable to
I'm thinking about going with the clutchmasters stage I and ceramic through shonut for $485. Just have to do my research and see what people on here have to say about that clutch.
Mistakes happen, live and learn.
98BLKSHO
New Member
The rear main seal is available at some dealers. I work in the parts department at a ford dealer and i can see about 10 dealers that still have them.
platoribs
Live to Drive
still running the stage II cams. I jumped to conclusions too early last night as shonut said they didn't have them and I was looking in the wrong place on rock auto. I wanted to delete the thread to keep from looking stupid but was unable to
I'm thinking about going with the clutchmasters stage I and ceramic through shonut for $485. Just have to do my research and see what people on here have to say about that clutch.
My experience is a unusually high clutch pedal engagement position. And I don't know how to manually adjust the clutch pedal position (if I can on this clutch?)
My CM1 and ceramic TOB are working great.
IIRC, the Clutchmasters Stage I has reworked pivot points to up the force on the pressure plate ~ 10% or so. However, sometimes they have QC issues resulting in clutch release problems. See Mr. Anonymous posts on this subject.
Josh has a new clutch option, built by Clutchmasters to his (SHOnut's) specs. This new clutch has heavy duty drive straps installed but leaves the pivot points alone so release point is not effected. They may or may not have a package deal with the ceramic TOB, I think its the former. Anyhow, with that combo you address the two weakest points on a SHO clutch, finger wear and drive strap failure (especially when downshifting). Not sure what SHOnut calls it.
zak
Too bad all parts dealers/warehouses aren't in the partsvoice system.
There's some Ford dealers who work with local parts warehouses that can get many obsolete parts others can't get, or find on parts voice. In this case, like said, it's called having a good parts department.
SHOtime2511
CGP
Most things you can find aftermarket for these cars like mentioned above. I dont even bother with the dealer anymore, everything ive ever called on they say was discontinued back in 2002
thats why there hurting for business.
when you screw over your customers over and over again what are the odds of them coming back to you?
Similar threads
