tranny leak-where is it?

[abatzis2@hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

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


-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: Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net>
>To: Michael Abatzis <abatzis2@hotmail.com>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: tranny leak-where is it?
>Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 16:14:45 -0400
>
>how could you have overfilled it? it would have came back out the fill hole 
>if
>you did.
>Al
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:12 PM
>Subject: tech: tranny leak-where is it?
>
>
> > 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,
> >
> >
> > -Michael Abatzis
> > Hotlanta! GA
> > 1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP-->parting, prelim web site, but not taking 
>orders
> > yet: www.learnlink.emory.edu/~mabatzi/mikes_page.html
> > 1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...
> >
> >
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