ShaneA319
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Central Florida
I've had a pretty bad leak from my trans for a couple months, gone through about 3qts of fluid in about 2 months. Anyways, when I took it to my mechanic he basically told me it was getting to hot and the fluid was just flowing past the seals.
So I put in a "high performance" tranny cooler from Advance. That fixed the overheating but not the leak, so I went back to the mechanic and he told me he would have to pull it to really find out what was going on. At almost $800 in just labor I said screw that, I'll figure out how to pull it myself, and if I messed something up while doing that I could probably find a used one for cheaper still.
Well, I'm pulling it next weekend and I wanted to get some ideas of what the leak may be, even though it's probably almost impossible to tell until the trans is out. First of all, the AW4 is out of a 98 with 125,000 miles. I'm pretty sure that it's coming from the bell housing, and it really seems to puke fluid when decelerating (billows smoke when getting off the highway). Other than those two things, I have no idea what's going on. Anyone have any ideas or gone through anything similar?
So I put in a "high performance" tranny cooler from Advance. That fixed the overheating but not the leak, so I went back to the mechanic and he told me he would have to pull it to really find out what was going on. At almost $800 in just labor I said screw that, I'll figure out how to pull it myself, and if I messed something up while doing that I could probably find a used one for cheaper still.
Well, I'm pulling it next weekend and I wanted to get some ideas of what the leak may be, even though it's probably almost impossible to tell until the trans is out. First of all, the AW4 is out of a 98 with 125,000 miles. I'm pretty sure that it's coming from the bell housing, and it really seems to puke fluid when decelerating (billows smoke when getting off the highway). Other than those two things, I have no idea what's going on. Anyone have any ideas or gone through anything similar?