I need advice quickly, as I'm probably going to dive into this job early tomorrow afternoon.
I thought the rear main on my TTA was bad (after parking my car in the driveway for literally 5 minutes, it will leave a 6" puddle of oil)
Symptoms:
Oil streaks on tranny pan
Drips from inspection cover
Starter is soaked
Crossover pipe is soaked after parking for a bit
However, tonight I started to prep the car... I yanked the crossover pipe, inspection cover, and starter. What I found shocked me... the flexplate and converter were BONE DRY. Not even the smallest hint of oil residue on them! I expected a bad rear main to SOAK the flexplate. Anyone had this experience?
I'm now thinking I might have a leaky oil pan gasket and that my rear main might be good. It's really hard to tell if the main is bad or not.
I could snake a new pan gasket in there without jacking the motor up, but I'm thinking while I'm there now is the time to change my original rear main (leaking or not) to a 2-piece Fel-Pro neoprene seal.
I have a couple questions about RTV usage on the seal itself-- Do you lightly coat the groove in the seal which slides over the groove in the cap and block (basically, RTV the main to the block and cap)? Do you put a light film of RTV where the 2 parts of the seals contact each other?
I do plan on clocking the seals a bit so they don't match with the cap/block seam.
Wish me luck... getting the pan off my F-body doesn't look fun. Guess I should have bought a GN
I thought the rear main on my TTA was bad (after parking my car in the driveway for literally 5 minutes, it will leave a 6" puddle of oil)
Symptoms:
Oil streaks on tranny pan
Drips from inspection cover
Starter is soaked
Crossover pipe is soaked after parking for a bit
However, tonight I started to prep the car... I yanked the crossover pipe, inspection cover, and starter. What I found shocked me... the flexplate and converter were BONE DRY. Not even the smallest hint of oil residue on them! I expected a bad rear main to SOAK the flexplate. Anyone had this experience?
I'm now thinking I might have a leaky oil pan gasket and that my rear main might be good. It's really hard to tell if the main is bad or not.
I could snake a new pan gasket in there without jacking the motor up, but I'm thinking while I'm there now is the time to change my original rear main (leaking or not) to a 2-piece Fel-Pro neoprene seal.
I have a couple questions about RTV usage on the seal itself-- Do you lightly coat the groove in the seal which slides over the groove in the cap and block (basically, RTV the main to the block and cap)? Do you put a light film of RTV where the 2 parts of the seals contact each other?
I do plan on clocking the seals a bit so they don't match with the cap/block seam.
Wish me luck... getting the pan off my F-body doesn't look fun. Guess I should have bought a GN