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Still weeps th350
- Thread starter TJ1978
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that's more of a personal preference.
Yeah, there really isn’t another way to ask that question... hahahahahaha
So,- light smear?
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Just like you said. Just smear it. Nothing thick or too thin.
We’ll see, hopefully this works, I may have spread too thin... if not, Im just going to use “the right stuff” and seal this darn thing with that.
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Is it just me or does anyone else read the title of this thread and think in their mind, "while my guitar gently"?
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Just replace guitar with TH350 and we have a chevy hit
Red spots in my driveway...... While my Tubro 350 gently weeps....
Installed the suggested pan, lube locker gasket with a lightish smearing of vaseline (as suggested), blue loctite on threads.
Poured about 2.5 quarts in. Its been about 5 hours haven’t noticed any Red. Ill add another quart tomorrow and see if it weeps.
My daughter (3) helped while the 2 boys were at school. hopefully she has the magic to keep it dry... But unfortunately with my luck, which she gets half by blood, it will leak. Hahahahaha boo hoo.
If it leaks, Im just going to try and live with it. This is the second pan, third gasket and third helping of ATF. So, permatex right stuff is next if I do this again.
Cheers...
Wallet is empty, as my Turbo 350 gently weeps.
Poured about 2.5 quarts in. Its been about 5 hours haven’t noticed any Red. Ill add another quart tomorrow and see if it weeps.
My daughter (3) helped while the 2 boys were at school. hopefully she has the magic to keep it dry... But unfortunately with my luck, which she gets half by blood, it will leak. Hahahahaha boo hoo.
If it leaks, Im just going to try and live with it. This is the second pan, third gasket and third helping of ATF. So, permatex right stuff is next if I do this again.
Cheers...
Wallet is empty, as my Turbo 350 gently weeps.
wasted wages
1 ton status
I usually just find a local trans rebuild shop and stop in. Most of them have a bunch laying around from broken kits..
I went out this morning and it was dry. So I added another half bottle so it’s roughly 3.5 quarts. Went back out an hour or so later and I see this drip on the front of the pan.
I stress, it’s not coming from the gasket, its higher.
Why leak now? It never leaked here before until I filled up the pan.
I haven’t even started the truck.
Is the fluid to high or?
How can the front pump seal or torque converter leak in this spot, when I haven’t started the truck in a week. And the same fluid level was in there two days ago and didnt leak? Befor I put this pan on , it drained for over a day, pan off
I stress, it’s not coming from the gasket, its higher.
Why leak now? It never leaked here before until I filled up the pan.
I haven’t even started the truck.
Is the fluid to high or?
How can the front pump seal or torque converter leak in this spot, when I haven’t started the truck in a week. And the same fluid level was in there two days ago and didnt leak? Befor I put this pan on , it drained for over a day, pan off
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No... checked
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Im betting something happenend when installing the tranny mounts, I had to lift the case to slide the mounts out. I bet that lifting messed with the input shaft seal...
So now I guess I have to pull the tranny because this leak usually pours while running, right?
If I have to pull the tranny, might as well get it rebuilt, new torque converter etc...
Fml
So now I guess I have to pull the tranny because this leak usually pours while running, right?
If I have to pull the tranny, might as well get it rebuilt, new torque converter etc...
Fml
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highly unlikely.
Im just guessing. I really dont know. And Im a bit irritated with the truck today. Would be nice to have one easy-ish win. Im still learning so Im guessing, with that being the only thing that has been different.
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have you drove it and verified the fluid level yet? That's the first step.
I haven’t even had a chance to even fire it up, to get warm enough to check.
Im guessing I probably added too much fluid on a cold truck. I used a few half-ish bottles to start. So exact amount initially added was a guess
Ok, I drained a bit of fluid 40min ago or so. Just went back out and its dry-ish. I can see faint trace of fluid where as before it was dripping off the pan
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You are supposed to fill up a few quarts and run the engine to fill up the passages and then top off to the proper level.
It's the only way to not overfill
Yeah I know. It did it the exact way Ive always done it. The only difference, is I guess usuing a few “half-full” bottles put me too high on cold fill. Not paying attention to the excat amount in those bottles.
I drained a bit and its not seeping now. Im out an about now. I wont be able to fire it up for a bit.
Thanks
For the record,every GM automatic I've had always had some seepage there ,at the front of the pan..as long as it didn't make puddles in my garage or driveway ,I just ignored it...fluid level never dropped any drastic amount,I may have had to add a 1/2 pint or so about every 6 months to a year.."some" seepage I consider normal...its rare to see a perfectly dry automatic ..ATF is a great penetrating oil..
