transmission sprayed all fluid out
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transmission sprayed all fluid out
The other day i pulled out of work and made it about a mile and a half before i smelled something so i stopped only to find out that it looks like all my transmission fluid spayed out from the back size but couldn't locate the leak. The spray covered half the width of the road also. Anyone have some idea what it could be. It gave me no signs of something wrong til that day.
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Have you tried checking/adding fluid? Assuming this is an automatic (ATX) have you checked the coolant reservoir/radiator cap for signs of ATF?
Leaking from the rear generally would be an axle shaft seal, or fluid leaking in the cooler in the radiator tank pushing coolant and ATF out of the overflow.
If that is the case and you are lucky, the coolant has not entered the ATX. The fluid will look like a pink milkshake if it has. Bad things for the ATX generally follow once that happens.
If it has pushed ATF into the coolant, and not the other way, don't drive it anymore and remove the ATF cooler lines from the radiator. Get some rubber ATF hose and make a loop. Flush the cooling system appropriately to get the ATF out of the system. Replace the radiator, and preferably get an external cooler with a Perma Cool oil thermostat.
Then take a deep breath and consider yourself lucky...
Leaking from the rear generally would be an axle shaft seal, or fluid leaking in the cooler in the radiator tank pushing coolant and ATF out of the overflow.
If that is the case and you are lucky, the coolant has not entered the ATX. The fluid will look like a pink milkshake if it has. Bad things for the ATX generally follow once that happens.
If it has pushed ATF into the coolant, and not the other way, don't drive it anymore and remove the ATF cooler lines from the radiator. Get some rubber ATF hose and make a loop. Flush the cooling system appropriately to get the ATF out of the system. Replace the radiator, and preferably get an external cooler with a Perma Cool oil thermostat.
Then take a deep breath and consider yourself lucky...
Bill
1999 neon coupe 2.4 swap
2021 Forester
2000 Neon MTX swap with '02 R/T PCMOlha Koba, a psychologist in Kyiv, said that “anger and hate in this situation is a normal reaction and important to validate.” But it is important to channel it into something useful, she said, such as making incendiary bombs out of empty bottles.
1999 neon coupe 2.4 swap
2021 Forester
That's exactly what I was thinking, too.chipdogg wrote:Blown cooler hose?
I'd check there first.
- Nick
-1998 2-dr SOHC MTX= 57mm TB; Maddog STS
-2000 Ply.LX w/MTX = Maddog STS; CAI; 2.5 exh.; 60mm T/B
-2001 ATX w/Syked PCM + Magnum header
-2001 ACR w/SRT T/B bored out to 55mm
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-2000 Ply.LX w/MTX = Maddog STS; CAI; 2.5 exh.; 60mm T/B
-2001 ATX w/Syked PCM + Magnum header
-2001 ACR w/SRT T/B bored out to 55mm
Official "I'm Going to Drive My Neon till it Dies" Club #000009
we managed to get the radiator as much leakproof as needed to check the trany
Means - we used that powerglue to fill and tighten the hole where the nozzle has been. We filled up water and tranyfluid (bypassed trany) and made a testdrive. Unfortunatelly it seems the 31TH had been damaged by the loss of luid. Starting from the first gear it slips a lot, all other gears feel like they should.
The radiator isn´t absolutely leakproof, but enough for that test. Had been pretty cheap and we had not much work to do (just remove airfilterhousing for better access from top - but you could get to the radiotor from the bottom as well).
Long story short - if the hose is your problem, try to check the tranys function first and decide from there on what to do.
Means - we used that powerglue to fill and tighten the hole where the nozzle has been. We filled up water and tranyfluid (bypassed trany) and made a testdrive. Unfortunatelly it seems the 31TH had been damaged by the loss of luid. Starting from the first gear it slips a lot, all other gears feel like they should.
The radiator isn´t absolutely leakproof, but enough for that test. Had been pretty cheap and we had not much work to do (just remove airfilterhousing for better access from top - but you could get to the radiotor from the bottom as well).
Long story short - if the hose is your problem, try to check the tranys function first and decide from there on what to do.
a neon - what else ?