Advice on renewing rear crankshaft oil seal

I am getting together the kit for replaceing my DMF and also a clutch kit. It will be all be SACHS stuff for my 2003 1.9 tdi 130hp 6-speed hatchback.

My local garage will do the job, they are not Skoda or VAG specialists, but are competant 'generalists'.

The other evening, I noticed a wee drip of oil from the seam between gearbox and bell housing and assumed this was likely to be a leaking rear crankshaft oil seal. I didn't have the nounce at the time to smell the oil to ascertain whether it was gear or engine oil and i couldn't see the colour. ( I will try to do this over the weekend).

So, either a crankshaft oil seal or maybe input shaft oil seal on the gearbox would seem to be the culprit?

Neither of these two items are particularly expensive and I can get both in advance of the job so the garage can be prepared to fit whichever is needed.

BUT - after doing some research on the net. It seems that renewing the crankshaft oil seal might be a highly technical operation needing special VAG tools and know-how because the 'Crankshaft position sensor' is part of the seal? - and this needs specialist technical expertise to remove and particularly to fit. Maybe I have misunderstood the stuff I saw on the net but it seemed to imply that this was a VAG garage job only?

So, my questions are: Can a competant garage refit a new Crankshaft oil seal without too much drama or is this definately a specialist process?

and

Is replaceing the gearbox input shaft oil seal straightforward during the clutch replacement process?

Many thanks for any advice in advance.

Cheers, Terry

Edited 30 March, 201214 yr by scotsgent