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Austin Jedrzejek

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Apr 23, 2015
Cleveland, Ohio
Please help I don't know what is going on I have replaced two clutches in my gsx and the first one that went I thought my rear main seal was bad because there was engine oil in my bell housing so I replaced it and hoping it had fixed it. It didn't now I'm 500 miles into my cluck break in and there is oil in the bell housing again I don't know what to do this is killing me. Please help
 
Gear or oil its behind the transmission if its leaking could be a problem I know I had torque mine down and make sure it was sealed machine shop didn't do it.
 
Check the rear main seal plate. They can get a crack and allow oil past the OD of the rear main seal.

Or an oil pan bolt bolt popped a hole in the plate

Or the rear main seal plate gasket failed.

Only so many ways oil can get in the bell housing.
 
Check the rear main seal plate. They can get a crack and allow oil past the OD of the rear main seal.

Or an oil pan bolt bolt popped a hole in the plate

Or the rear main seal plate gasket failed.

Only so many ways oil can get in the bell housing.
I replaced the rear main seal housing when I did the seal. A oil pan bolt popped a hole in the plate? What is that?
 
You have 2 oil pan bolts that bolt the oil pan to the housing, if one bolt is a tad too long, or too much RTV gets packed in the bolt hole it will break.

Since to replaced the rear main seal, did you lube up the inner lip of the seal before you installed it?
 
You have 2 oil pan bolts that bolt the oil pan to the housing, if one bolt is a tad too long, or too much RTV gets packed in the bolt hole it will break.

Since to replaced the rear main seal, did you lube up the inner lip of the seal before you installed it?
So I went and bought a bottle of the stuff that makes the oil change color when you use a black light and it is leaking from somewhere in the bell housing or the rear main seal again, it drips out at the bottem of the bell housing and runs down the transfer case. But now I'm super perplexed because it has the dye of the engine oil but smells like tranny fluid now and it never smelled like that I've sniffed it many times before.
 
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