On this page we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Surely, spotting a leak on your car is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Chevrolet Camaro . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Chevrolet Camaro.
Gearbox leak on Chevrolet Camaro, source and manifestation
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is obviously caused by the gearbox of your Chevrolet Camaro. To achieve this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once confirmed, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Chevrolet Camaro?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Chevrolet Camaro, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Realize that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the auto mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Chevrolet Camaro, otherwise you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just powerful in the case of small leaks, this kit is worth around 40 euros
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Prevention: How to avoid gearbox leaks on your Chevrolet Camaro?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Chevrolet Camaro , nevertheless here are the three most effective:
- Frequent oil changes on your gearbox deck.
- Drain your gearbox and put new oil in it. If you want to know everything about this task, please read our content page on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Chevrolet Camaro gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Chevrolet Camaro. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will also have a different price, nevertheless, we estimate that the repair, labour included will cost you between 800 and 2000 euros , knowing that the part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
To find more tips on the Chevrolet Camaro, take a look at the Chevrolet Camaro category.
