Patent ID: 8209832

Claim:
A transmission seal installation kit comprising: a plurality of seal drivers; wherein each of the seal drivers has a specific design suitable for driving a seal to the proper location of a particular transmission drum; wherein said particular transmission drum is a 4T40 transmission; a handle; wherein the handle attaches to each seal driver, and is removable in order to change seal drivers for specific uses; wherein the plurality of seal drivers are further defined as a forward drum seal driver and a reverse drum seal driver; wherein the reverse drum seal driver and the forward drum seal driver each have a small opening; wherein the handle has a shoulder containing both an inner grooved notch and an outer grooved notch; wherein the inner grooved notch has an O-ring situated such that the handle is snuggly fitted to either the reverse drum seal driver or the forward drum seal driver; wherein a snap ring removal tool is provided to be used in conjunction with a foot press in order to remove a snap ring from a direct and coast drum, a reverse drum assembly, or a forward drum assembly of said 4T40 transmission; the reverse drum seal driver is used in connection with the reverse drum assembly in order to replace an inner seal and requires removal of a snap ring, a spring and retainer, a reverse piston, and said inner seal; wherein a new inner seal is placed onto a reverse drum housing, and then pushed via the reverse drum seal driver until the new inner seal is seated against a bottom surface of the reverse drum housing; wherein the forward drum seal driver is used in connection with the forward drum assembly in order to replace an inner seal located therein and requires removal of a snap ring, a spring and retainer, a forward piston, and said inner seal; wherein a new inner seal is placed onto a forward drum housing, and then pushed via the forward drum seal driver until the new inner seal is seated against a bottom surface of the forward drum housing; wherein an axle seal installer is included with said kit, and is used to install a new axle seal onto a transmission case; wherein the axle seal installer has a shoulder that has a distance equal to that of a slight extension of the axle seal from a transmission case such that the axle seal installer pushes the new axle seal onto said transmission case at a proper distance with respect to an outer surface of said transmission case.