On this page we will try to help you fix a problem that can be annoying, and if not taken on time become a financial drain. Indeed, finding a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Honda Odyssey . Today, 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 Honda Odyssey.
Gearbox leak on Honda Odyssey, source and manifestation
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Honda Odyssey. To accomplish this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be based on your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once affirmed, here are the possible roots of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s improperly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or damaged
- One of your seals damaged
How to repair a gearbox leak on Honda Odyssey?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Honda Odyssey, we will try to describe to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Be aware that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a mechanic to identify the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox might be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to identify 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 Honda Odyssey, 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 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 Honda Odyssey?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Honda Odyssey , 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 examine our content on this subject.
- Use a specific 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 Honda Odyssey gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Honda Odyssey. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and depending 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.
If you wish more tutorials on the Honda Odyssey, go to our Honda Odyssey category.
