spyderdrifter
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- Jul 11, 2009
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So for no appearent reason, last week my transmission started bleeding gear oil everywhere and after driving to my storage garage and getting under it, I found the driver side axle popped about 1/2 and inch out of the transmission. So I thought nothing of it and got the axle reseated and refilled my tranny. I then got onto the forums here to try to find someone with a similar problem with no real luck that went in the dirrection of my problem. However, I read one post regarding the c-clip at the end of the splines to keep it in the tranny. I let it go without checking since I had just filled the tranny up. That was Saturday. Now today, I had gotten to work, and was talking to a friend who parked next to me, when someone else came up saying my car was leaking on the passenger side. So again, it was the tranny leaking even more than before. Got it here to my garage, and sure enough, the damn driver side axle is out 1/2 an inch. I've pulled it all the way out of the tranny, and the c-clip is still there (just in case, I pulled one from the salvage yard a couple hrs ago). Should I just swap the clips and hope for the best? How can I find out the cause of this problem. I'm getting tired of my tranny leaking, and then being forced to drive to my garage with little to no gear oil...
I'm at the point of cutting my losses and selling this car, or worse...... I need some answers, anything helps, thanks.
Okay, here's a last second update, I just pulled the c-clip off my axle, and compared it to the one I pulled at the junk yard. My original is a smaller diameter clip, and there's a smaller gap in it making the clip smaller in overall diameter to the junk yard one. The one from the junk yard came off a GST with auto trans (mine's manual). The axle in the junk yard was also slightly different than mine. Should I use the new clip or no? I'm gonna test fit it and see if it'll slide into the tranny. Hopefully it doesn't pop off the splines.
I'm at the point of cutting my losses and selling this car, or worse...... I need some answers, anything helps, thanks.
Okay, here's a last second update, I just pulled the c-clip off my axle, and compared it to the one I pulled at the junk yard. My original is a smaller diameter clip, and there's a smaller gap in it making the clip smaller in overall diameter to the junk yard one. The one from the junk yard came off a GST with auto trans (mine's manual). The axle in the junk yard was also slightly different than mine. Should I use the new clip or no? I'm gonna test fit it and see if it'll slide into the tranny. Hopefully it doesn't pop off the splines.
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