Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be annoying, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. Indeed, distinguishing a leak on your vehicle is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Chevrolet City Express . In this article, we’re going to help you verify that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Chevrolet City Express.
Gearbox leak on Chevrolet City Express, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Chevrolet City Express. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Chevrolet City Express?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Chevrolet City Express, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify the leak, the technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Chevrolet City Express, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only effective 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 City Express?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Chevrolet City Express , however 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 examine our article on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Chevrolet City Express gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Chevrolet City Express. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole 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 as well have a different price, however, 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 City Express, take a look at the Chevrolet City Express category.
