TrystanGST
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jul 29, 2004
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Chicago,
Illinois
I was away for a while, but I have gotten back to my car and this site. 
Anyways...
A while ago (mid-October) I was driving from New Mexico to Illinois when my transmission died. Hard. I pulled over to the side of the road (35 miles from Springfield MO) and there was trans fluid all along the bottom of the car. There was also a nice machined gash in the housing. I had to call a flat bed ( my car's first
). Of course this happened on a Friday afternoon. The tow truck guy said I had two choices....SATAN or some local shop. So the local shop tells me that they will look at it and let me know. So I rent a car and finish the trip to Illinois. Two weeks and several delays later I am about to head back to New Mexico and I get my car back. They installed a new clutch, resurfaced the flywheel (twice) and put in a fresh re-manufactured transmission. By the way, the 5th gear was responsible for the nice cut in the housing. I drive back to New Mexico without incident. It's after a few weeks here that I notice my car is leaving wet spots. I don't think anything of it at first, but it does it every time. So I take a look, and it's trans fluid. 
I order up some BG Synchroshift, since no place around here has ANY manual fluid. I stop driving the Eclipse until it arrives, since I don't want to buy ANOTHER transmission. I get the car up, drain out about a pint of the old fluid, and proceed to fill it with BG. It starts leaking after a day or so. I can't tell where it is coming from, but I am not keen on buying another trans or more BG (at 15 a bottle thank you). I know this is a round about way of asking, but how would I go about finding the culprit and stopping it before I lose another tranny? It seems to stop leaking when it gets to a certain level. There is not a lot of fluid on the housing itself.
Thanks,
Anyways...
A while ago (mid-October) I was driving from New Mexico to Illinois when my transmission died. Hard. I pulled over to the side of the road (35 miles from Springfield MO) and there was trans fluid all along the bottom of the car. There was also a nice machined gash in the housing. I had to call a flat bed ( my car's first
). Of course this happened on a Friday afternoon. The tow truck guy said I had two choices....SATAN or some local shop. So the local shop tells me that they will look at it and let me know. So I rent a car and finish the trip to Illinois. Two weeks and several delays later I am about to head back to New Mexico and I get my car back. They installed a new clutch, resurfaced the flywheel (twice) and put in a fresh re-manufactured transmission. By the way, the 5th gear was responsible for the nice cut in the housing. I drive back to New Mexico without incident. It's after a few weeks here that I notice my car is leaving wet spots. I don't think anything of it at first, but it does it every time. So I take a look, and it's trans fluid. I order up some BG Synchroshift, since no place around here has ANY manual fluid. I stop driving the Eclipse until it arrives, since I don't want to buy ANOTHER transmission. I get the car up, drain out about a pint of the old fluid, and proceed to fill it with BG. It starts leaking after a day or so. I can't tell where it is coming from, but I am not keen on buying another trans or more BG (at 15 a bottle thank you). I know this is a round about way of asking, but how would I go about finding the culprit and stopping it before I lose another tranny? It seems to stop leaking when it gets to a certain level. There is not a lot of fluid on the housing itself.
Thanks,
