Today we will try to help you solve a problem that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In actual fact, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Dodge Durango . Today, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Dodge Durango.
Gearbox leak on Dodge Durango, source and manifestation
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed caused by the gearbox of your Dodge Durango. To do this, you will need to go under your vehicle and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be caused by 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: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Dodge Durango?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Dodge Durango, we will try to describe to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Be aware that no matter the reason, after having distinguished a leak, you must go to a garage to determine the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the technician will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will necessitate 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 Dodge Durango, 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 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 Dodge Durango?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Dodge Durango , 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 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 slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Dodge Durango gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Dodge Durango. As you have understood, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the garage the labour can vary quite 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.
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