In this article we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In reality, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Jeep Wrangler . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, at last, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Jeep Wrangler.
Gearbox leak on Jeep Wrangler, origin and manifestation
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Jeep Wrangler. 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 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 fix a gearbox leak on Jeep Wrangler?
After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Jeep Wrangler, we will try to explain to you what are your possibilities to remedy this oil leak. Bear in mind that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, otherwise your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the auto mechanic will have to dismantle your gearbox, which will require 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 Jeep Wrangler, otherwise you’ll have to replace the complete 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 Jeep Wrangler?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Jeep Wrangler , however 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 action, please go through our article on this subject matter.
- Use a specific additive for routine service of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and enable to plug slight leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Jeep Wrangler gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Jeep Wrangler. As you have understood, gearbox problems often lead to a complete replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and depending on your engine the component 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 component alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.
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