Just finished replacing the rear crank seal in my '99 Breeze 2.0L. What a pain. Pulled the transaxle, left the engine in place. flexplate was scored by the seal so bad that I replaced the flexplate. Was doing an internet search to see how common a problem this is, when I stumbled onto this web site, thread.
Car would not be worth it if you had to pay to have this done, would be worth more in scrap.
Charles