Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Surely, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Chevrolet Impala . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in truth a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Chevrolet Impala.
Gearbox leak on Chevrolet Impala, origin and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is in truth coming from the gearbox of your Chevrolet Impala. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be coming 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 incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Chevrolet Impala?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Chevrolet Impala, we will try to explain to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that in any case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Chevrolet Impala, otherwise you’ll have to replace the whole gearbox
- At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is only 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 Impala?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Chevrolet Impala , 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 manipulation, please go through our content page on this subject.
- Use a particular additive for maintenance 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 Impala gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Chevrolet Impala. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the component will as well have a different price, nevertheless, we estimate that the repair, labour included will cost you between 800 and 2000 euros , knowing that the component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
To find more tips on the Chevrolet Impala, take a look at the Chevrolet Impala category.
