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Originally Posted by exitwound
We didn't change the seals when we had the engine out because it would have taken too long to wait for shipping and they all looked dry (minus maybe the oil pan gasket). I don't have a daily driver at this point.
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...and now you'll have oil sprayed all over the bottom of the car, dripped all over the driveway, empty oil bottles piling up like McDonalds trash in a work truck, and maybe even a crankcase vacuum leak, which will pass oil through the breather into the intake, using more oil, caking burnt oil all over the inside of the intake manifold, screwing up the catalytic converter, leaving a cloud of oil smoke that makes you wonder if there's a bad cylinder, and then the world will end shortly after all of that. All of this is from personal experience, except I'm still waiting for the world to end.
Now it will take a really long time to drop everything again to fix it. Seems to me the only time you should not change the rear main seal when you have the engine out is if you already did it last week. Exaggerated, but true, much older than that isn't worth leaving it since it's such a pain to access otherwise. If you're lucky, it's the oil pan gasket, which still would have been an infinitely easier job with the engine out, especially if it was weeping oil before the engine even went in.
Oil leaks suck. Just when you get them fixed, a new one pops up that's even more of a PITA to fix than the previous one. And a quart every 2 weeks of anything good gets kind of expensive after awhile.