Rear Main Seal orientation

Its fine, do the bearings, oil pick up and oil pump. People like to spend other peoples money on the internet. There is so much mis information it is crazy. They say you gotta do this, you gotta do that because their second cousins, uncles, brothers, daughter inlaws grandpa told them back in 1922...... and they are proven wrong on a daily basis.
Put it together and........:burnout:



Why are you being such an ***?

He didn't "tell us why." Those bearings are flat BURNED. That doesn't look like 8500 miles, it looks like 185000 miles

"Spending other peoples money on the internet."

It doesn't cost very much to inspect an engine that is already apart and make God Dammed sure it won't have to come apart again soon--quite possibly in a violent manner.