Today we will try to help you fix a issue that can be frustrating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In truth, finding a leak on your vehicle is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Mitsubishi Pajero . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 Mitsubishi Pajero.
Gearbox leak on Mitsubishi Pajero, origin and symptom
If you have noticed an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in fact caused by the gearbox of your Mitsubishi Pajero. 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 validated, here are the possible sources 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 it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to fix a gearbox leak on Mitsubishi Pajero?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Mitsubishi Pajero, 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 founded a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact origin of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably broken. However, here is how the service of the mechanic and the solutions that will be offered to you:
- Very often to distinguish the leak, the auto technician 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Mitsubishi Pajero, 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 Mitsubishi Pajero?
There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Mitsubishi Pajero , 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 manipulation, please go through our article on this subject.
- Use a specific 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 Mitsubishi Pajero gearbox
Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Mitsubishi Pajero. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic 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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