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V35 4doors 2001 - rear main seal retainer replacement - any good service in Adelaide?


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Can't find a good mechanic in Adelaide to replace the main rear seal. Nissan dealer is fully booked for a next few months. The engine needs to be suspended, removal of the gear box and the oil pan to get into it (probably starter as well) and place a new gasket proper, tricky. Anyone knows a good trustworthy place where it can be done?

 

Many thanks

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French??  Is there anything French on these??

Anyway, I hope you are doing more than just the rear main, you will also want the 2 seals number 11121 and 11121+A as well as dropping and re-sealing the whole upper sump (assuming that is what you are doing anyway).  Definitely not a job you want to skimp on, nothing worse than chasing new oil leaks because of something you disturbed but didn't replace in the process.

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19 hours ago, sonicii said:

French??  Is there anything French on these??

These come from the era where the Nissan-Renault tie up was not doing Nissan product any favours. Started in 1999 and has made almost every Nissan since then a French influenced turd, compared to what it might have been if the insanity of the 80s and 90s had been allowed to continue (assuming that it could continue without Nissan going broke, of course).

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That might be a bit harsh.  I have had a late 80s R series skyline, a mid 90s maxima, wife had a mid 00s maxima, I had a mid 00s V35 and now a Q50.  They have been an improvement each time.  I would t go back to any given the chance..

 

I would agree, the Renault alliance didn’t do Nissan any favours, beside saving them from bankruptcy..  but Renault didn’t really have that much influence on Nissan vehicles they weren’t co-developing.

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It's way off topic by now, but I have to agree the quality of engineering went way down hill. The level of additional power  you can make without breaking things and the general reliability under heavy use like racing of the standard parts in R chassis is very unusual.

But it did have to change, Nissan was loosing money on every car they made which is never going to last

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7 hours ago, niZmO_Man said:

It's been 10 years man, they removed Ghosn. Get over it :P

Didn't they remove him in a violin case (#yesitreallyhappened)

Anyway, those cars look nothing alike, one is white and one is silver.

It is nissan who keep copying camrys.

1990s camry wagon

1998 Nissan Stagea

mid 2010s camry hybrid sedan

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  • 9 months later...

Haha love this conversation.

holden and Toyota shared models,

Commodore/Lexon

Camry/Apolo

Daiwoo was owned by Holden

Hyundai was Nissan (I think)

Kia is owned by Ford who also own Mazda

BMW owns VW and a few other too I think.

 Nissan and Renault are apparently one of the same.

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