On this page we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Obviously, finding a leak on your vehicle is rarely reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Lincoln Continental . Today, we’re going to help you verify that it’s indeed a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, at last, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Lincoln Continental.
Gearbox leak on Lincoln Continental, origin and symptom
If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to validate that this leak is indeed originating from the gearbox of your Lincoln Continental. To do this, you will need to go under your car and follow the oil leak. If it is transmission oil, it must be originating from your gearbox sump or an adjacent room. Once verified, here are the possible origins of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s wrongly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Just equipped on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In the event it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Lincoln Continental?
After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Lincoln Continental, we will try to show you to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Be aware that in any case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, 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 involve a high labour cost.
- If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your auto mechanic will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Lincoln Continental, in any other case you’ll have to change 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 Lincoln Continental?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Lincoln Continental , 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 browse our content page 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 locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Lincoln Continental gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Lincoln Continental. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a complete change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary 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.
Whenever you have any further questions about the Lincoln Continental, do not hesitate to consult our Lincoln Continental category.
