Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be annoying, and if not taken in 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 Tahoe . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to repair a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Chevrolet Tahoe.
Gearbox leak on Chevrolet Tahoe, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is indeed caused by the gearbox of your Chevrolet Tahoe. To get this done, 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 established, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event that it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Chevrolet Tahoe?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Chevrolet Tahoe, we will try to show you to you what are your options to repair this oil leak. Realize that in any case, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case 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 distinguish the leak, the technician will have to dismantle 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 Tahoe, in any other case you’ll have to change the complete gearbox
- Finally, 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 Tahoe?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Chevrolet Tahoe , however here are the three most effective:
- Regular oil changes on your gearbox deck.
- Drain your gearbox and put new oil in it. If you want to know everything about this action, please go through our content page on this subject.
- Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Chevrolet Tahoe gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Chevrolet Tahoe. 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 a lot and depending on your engine the component will also have a different price, however, 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.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Chevrolet Tahoe, do not hesitate to consult our Chevrolet Tahoe category.
