[Tool Pants]

Here is the flange on my 1997. Since my car is so old I have the old style. I stuck a pick under the o-ring so you could see it better. You see a second much smaller o-ring - that goes behind the hole in the middle of the flange where the bolts is.

The seal for the intermediate shaft cannot leak fast enough to damage your engine. It just slowly seeps or drips. But when the bolt breaks off you have a hole in the back of your engine below the engine oil level, and sometimes the oil immediately dumps on the ground. Your engine then sounds like marbles in a can because the intermediate shaft is getting whipped around inside the motor. Then your engine dies and the check engine light comes on.

BTY to replace the bearing the engine is removed and taken apart. You cannot do it from the outside.