The early Coyote's two-piece rear main seal weeps with age — and reaching it means the transmission comes out. We do the seal and the oil pan gasket together at your home, so the leak is fixed once.
The 2011–2017 Coyote V8 uses a two-piece rear main seal where the crankshaft exits the back of the block. Two-piece designs have a built-in weakness — the seam — and with years of heat cycles the seal hardens and starts weeping oil right at the junction between engine and transmission. Heat accelerates it: the drip is worst after a long highway run or towing, when everything back there is fully heat-soaked.
The leak's location is what makes this a big job. The seal hides behind the flexplate or flywheel, which hides behind the transmission — so the transmission has to come out for access. That's the bulk of the roughly eleven hours of labour, and it's why a part that costs comparatively little carries a four-figure repair bill anywhere you take it.
It's also why the oil pan gasket belongs in the same job: it's the other common Coyote weep point, it's vastly easier to do with everything already apart, and skipping it risks watching a fresh drip appear a month after paying for the rear main. One teardown should fix every leak back there — that's how we quote it.
If your Ford is doing any of these, this is the likely cause:
A rear main weep rarely strands you, but it never stays a weep. The seal keeps hardening, oil keeps finding the clutch or coating the underbody, and oil level discipline becomes your problem every week. Mechanically the real cost of waiting is oil on a clutch (manual cars) or an engine run low by a distracted week. Fix it once, properly, with the pan gasket — then stop thinking about it.
Yes — with a transmission jack, supports and a level driveway, transmission R&R is established mobile work. It's most of a day and we treat it with the care it deserves. The alternative is towing your vehicle to a shop and waiting for bay time; instead, we come to you.
You're not paying for the seal — you're paying for access. The transmission has to come out and go back in, which is roughly eleven hours of book labour at any shop, billed at their hourly rate. We quote one flat price for the complete job, seal plus pan gasket, before we start. No hourly surprises.
Because it's the other known weep point on these engines and it's dramatically easier with the teardown already done. Fixing the rear main and leaving an aging pan gasket invites a second leak — and a second bill — within months. The smart version of this job does both in one pass.
Location and confirmation. Oil at the engine-transmission junction points to the rear main, but valve cover and pan leaks can run back and mimic it. We degrease, dye-test or UV-check as needed and trace the leak to its true source before quoting — nobody should pay for a transmission-out job to fix a valve cover.
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