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I Need Transmission help...PLEASE!!!

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93TSI_DSM

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Jun 15, 2008
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Ok about a week ago while at my friend mikes(slowrt4) house i pulled into the driveway and i shut my talon off, go inside look out the window at my car and there is a piss load of fluid leaking down from the middle of my engine. so i go outside start the car up and take it home and park it in the garage after walking outside i see spots on the driveway about 4-6inch apart from each other and i was rolling probably 5-10 mph into the driveway. basicly it was still leaking hard core....... after sitting in the garage for a week i look under the car and see a metallic-amber colored liquid (tranny fluid and metal???) covering the Clutch slave cylinder and the bottom half of the trans.

I started to think it was maybe the Rear-main seal or the axle seal so i blasted the shit out of it with degreaser and brake cleaner to get a better look. there was a slow drip from a bolt on the trans but nothing else was dripping so i started the car, i dont have to push the clutch in because i have the Neutral kill unplugged, but yea i then pushed the clutch in Spongy as #### so i think maybe it is the Clutch slave cylinder and then i try to put it into gear ......and ggggrrrrrrriiiinnndddd...god damn it. i have no idea wtf is going on ive never seen this before can anyone think of what might be wrong? i need to fix that POS ASAP because i use it to drive to school and shit. lmk thanks tuners.
 
Check your clutch fluid reservoir, if it is dry then that would explain the spongy pedal and grinding gears because you aren't disengaging the clutch fully. It is just Dot 3 or Dot 4 brake fluid if it is dry, then you will have to see where it is leaking from. Most likely from the seal around the piston in the slave cylinder or from the line going to it. Replace the necessary part if needed and then you will have to bleed it after filled. If you can't find anything wrong with that check the fluid level in your transmission, underneath your air intake there will be a plug on the side of the transmission that says OIL on it. Just take a wire-tie and bend it at a 90 degree and stick in in the hole and note where the level is, it shouldn't be below the bottom of the fill-hole. After you check those over let us know.
 
its leaking tranny fluid i have clutch fluid in there full to the top. i drained the tranny fluid and it all came out Metallic and there is still no clutch still spongy. and the leak on the transmission is coming from a bolt between the motor and trans plate (the metal plate bolted to the tranny)
 
Well if your clutch pedal is suddenly ####ed then obviously it sounds like your slave/master took a crap... or the flex line.

However, if the fluid level is fine and you can verify slave movement, it is possible you cracked your trans case and it's flexing when you push the clutch in... it would explain the tranny fluid if in fact that's what it is.
 
You may have a hole in your bell housing near your front diff.. I have seen this many times before...Jacks transmissions site in down right now..You can check out Dogbox racing maybe they will be able to help you more.
 
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