So I've been chasing the slightest little transmission leak for almost a year now.
Symptoms: Greasy tranny pan, greasy skid and specifically when you remove the skid you can see the fluid pooling up in between the tcase and transmission. The leak is terribly slow. There's never enough fluid to pool up on the ground, yet enough to congregate into droplets on the bottom of the skid.
Action taken so far: I replaced the filter and transmission gasket near a year ago thinking that was a good place to start. Issue persisted. My local shop then replaced the rear input and output shaft seals at my request after some suggestions here on the board. Issue replicated after about a week. At the beginning of this month my local shop replaced the rear input shaft seal again.
What I know so far: the fluid is indeed pooling up between the tcase and tranny. I also know that the leak is so slow it doesn't ever noticeably change my dipstick level. I replaced the stock gasket with a rubber gasket and eyeballed the torque due to not having a nice low value torque wrench at the time. That said even if the pan was leaking that doesn't explain fluid in between the tcase and tranny.
This is driving me crazy. My next thoughts are to order a lube locker seal for the tranny pan to rule the gasket on the pan out completely.
As far as I know the only seals I'm dealing with are the rear input, rear output and tranny pan gasket. Am I missing something huge here?
Symptoms: Greasy tranny pan, greasy skid and specifically when you remove the skid you can see the fluid pooling up in between the tcase and transmission. The leak is terribly slow. There's never enough fluid to pool up on the ground, yet enough to congregate into droplets on the bottom of the skid.
Action taken so far: I replaced the filter and transmission gasket near a year ago thinking that was a good place to start. Issue persisted. My local shop then replaced the rear input and output shaft seals at my request after some suggestions here on the board. Issue replicated after about a week. At the beginning of this month my local shop replaced the rear input shaft seal again.
What I know so far: the fluid is indeed pooling up between the tcase and tranny. I also know that the leak is so slow it doesn't ever noticeably change my dipstick level. I replaced the stock gasket with a rubber gasket and eyeballed the torque due to not having a nice low value torque wrench at the time. That said even if the pan was leaking that doesn't explain fluid in between the tcase and tranny.
This is driving me crazy. My next thoughts are to order a lube locker seal for the tranny pan to rule the gasket on the pan out completely.
As far as I know the only seals I'm dealing with are the rear input, rear output and tranny pan gasket. Am I missing something huge here?