I have an 05 Ram 1500 6-cyl. The oil pressure dropped this morning. The front main seal is blown. I am told that the tranny has to be dropped to repair this. Does anyone know if this is true? How long would you think this would take a technician to repair?

Thank you to anybody/everybody that can help me.

 

How many miles on the truck? Hard to believe a main seal would go on that new of model. You have to drop the tranny to replace the rear main seal but not the front. Looking at about 3-4 hours.

 

Motha . . . er, I have 33k miles. Is that covered on the 7/70?

 

61K miles. Never had any other problems with truck until this morning.

 

yeah you dont have to drop the trans to do a frt main seal....just remove the radiator, fan, A/C compressor, pull the crank pulley and then replace the seal ( DCX special tool #8511) and then put it back together (DCX special tools #8512 & 8348) for installing the new seal and then tool #8512-A for installing the vib. dampner.....i would say it books for prolly 2 hrs...give or take .5 lol.....either way it's not a very hard job to do and i'd go back to the delaer and tell them they are dumbasses