How to change gear box drive shaft seals

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Anyone know how I get the old drive shaft seals out and the new ones in? I got a kit and it has 2 large seals which obviously go in each side and a 3rd smaller seal not sure where that would go?

Is it just a case of getting a screwdriver and levering it out and pushing a new seal in?

It's a F17 vectra gearbox
 
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I'd prefer to use something made of hard plastic rather than metal, or i've got like a small pointy scraper that I dig into seals (obviously not all the way through) to pull 'em out.
 
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There are special seal pullers - hooked jobbies but not sure on the access on this application.

Large screwdriver carefully placed will do the trick.

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Or even use the old seal to help drive the new one in.

All depends on access.

And if there are no depth stops, don't drive the seal in too deeply!
 
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Is it worth replacing the seals? Or should that be 'it's alwasy worth replacing the seals'

The gearbox is lying on my hal floor. Access shouldn't be a problem. Was trying with a screwdriver for 5 mins earlier... seems like a tight bugger. Hence I thought there may have been some kind of knack.

Should I be sticking the driver in the rubber bit, or between the box and the metal outer, or underneath to try and hook it somehow
 
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