Today we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. Obviously, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Ford Escape . In this article, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Ford Escape.

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Gearbox leak on Ford Escape, origin and symptom

If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to verify that this leak is indeed caused by the gearbox of your Ford Escape. To accomplish 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 validated, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:

  • A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
  • Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
  • From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
  • One of your seals broken

How to repair a gearbox leak on Ford Escape?

After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Ford Escape, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Remember that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage to identify the exact origin of the leak, in any other case 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 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 change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Ford Escape, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
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  • At last, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just 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 Ford Escape?

There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Ford Escape , 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 task, please examine our article on this subject.
  • Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will discover some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Ford Escape gearbox

At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Ford Escape. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the garage the labour can vary quite a lot and based 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.

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