On this page we will try to help you fix a issue that can be annoying, and if not handled on time become a financial drain. In reality, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your GMC Savana . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a GMC Savana.
Gearbox leak on GMC Savana, origin and symptom
If you have spotted an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is obviously caused by the gearbox of your GMC Savana. To achieve 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: Only 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 GMC Savana?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your GMC Savana, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having founded a leak, you must go to a mechanic to determine the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to determine the leak, the auto mechanic will have to take apart your gearbox, which will necessitate a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your GMC Savana, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
- Finally, for the do-it-yourselfers, it is possible to use a sealing kit which is just 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 GMC Savana?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your GMC Savana , 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 manipulation, please examine our content on this subject matter.
- Use a particular additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a GMC Savana gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a GMC Savana. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because based on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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