tranny leak-where is it?

[abatzis2@hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

this is kinda along the lines of what i'm thinking. just wanted to see if 
anyone had leaks from there before.  i'm gonna clean it up real shiny-like, 
take for a drive, and see what happens.

-Michael Abatzis
Hotlanta! GA
1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP-->parting, prelim web site, but not taking orders 
yet: www.learnlink.emory.edu/~mabatzi/mikes_page1.html
1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...


>From: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>
>To: Michael Abatzis <abatzis2@hotmail.com>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: tranny leak-where is it?
>Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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.
>
>[snip]
>
> > >how could you have overfilled it? it would have came back out the fill 
>hole
> > >if
> > >you did.
> > >Al
>
>[snip]
>
> > > > 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,


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