tranny leak-where is it?

[treed2@u.washington.edu (T. Reed)]

Yeah, but my tranny was -underfilled- and it made a HUGE leak in my
driveway over the course of a couple days. Like 3.5 ft in diameter.

I cleaned it off and replaced the speedo cable gasket (it was missing, and
the hold-down bolt for the speedo cable was the wrong size - 6mm instead
of the correct size 7mm) and it hasn't leaked a drop since.

Driving it around and/or revving the engine will slosh the gear oil around
inside the tranny case and it will leak out pretty significantly even
through the top if all the seals aren't good.

HTH,

-Toby

> filling throught the speedo cable hole= higher than fill hole.

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> >how could you have overfilled it? it would have came back out the fill hole
> >if
> >you did.
> >Al

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> > > since i got my car in march, i've noticed a very slow, intermittant
> >tranny
> > > fluid leak.  usually i notice a few drops after very spirited driving;
> >it
> > > seems like the hotter the engine, the more the leak (which makes sense
> >if
> > > it's a seal i guess).  i put about a quart of redline in last week, and
> > > noticed the leak is now a bit worse.  i think i overfilled the
> > > tranny--pretty much filled it all the way (usually i drain it, put in 2
> > > quarts). i just can't figure out where the hell it's coming from.  where
> >it
> > > isn't coming from is the bellhousing; that's where it would be if it was
> > > SMS, right? i think it's from the speedo hole (which would also make
> >sense
> > > if i overfilled it), but maybe the gasket between 5th gear and the rest
> >of
> > > the tranny.  anyone else know where it could be from? again, definitely
> > > nothing from the bellhousing, which is where most of the seals and stuff
> > > are.  also, no noises, shifting relatively smooth (linkage still a bit
> >out
> > > of whack). ideas? tia,