So, I'm on vacation this week and decided to tackle some maintenance. Everything was successful, except for the tranny (it's an automatic). I got the transmission drained, mating surfaces cleaned, gasket cleaned and put her all back together. However, the pan leaks like a sieve along the entire back.
I've disassembled and reassembled twice now. Gasket is aligned perfectly, hand tightened all bolts to finger tight, and torqued to 89 in lbs in a criss-cross pattern. Son of a gun still leaks. I've read that the gasket is reusable, and by all accounts it's not ripped up. Anyone else have trouble doing this job?
I may end up heading up to the dealer tomorrow. Paying $60 for a gasket is no bueno. I do have the neoprene gasket that came with the new filter, but I've read that those are junk.
Yeah, magnet is cleaned and back in its home. I'm thinking I may need to bite the big one and drop for the new gasket. I'd had to have to go back in and pay for a new filter and new fluid to boot.
Can't say for certain, but mine has always had one as far as I can tell. Good thing, too. There was a decent amount of sludge/particulate on it this time around.
After a little more Google time, I am beginning to think the pan bolt holes are dimpled from a previous tech over-torquing. In fact, I did notice that yesterday but assumed it was normal, to a degree. Seems a lot of people had the same issue and needed t lightly tap out the inversions. I will repost with an update for anyone who's interested.
I would get a new gasket. As soon as you break that original seal its not going to go back perfectly the way it was.
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