Today we will try to help you resolve a problem that can be frustrating, and if not taken in time become a financial drain. In truth, distinguishing a leak on your car is hardly ever reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Nissan Frontier . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to fix a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention suggestions, and, finally, give you an indication of the price of the gearbox of a Nissan Frontier.

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Gearbox leak on Nissan Frontier, origin and symptom

If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in actual fact originating from the gearbox of your Nissan Frontier. To get this done, 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 confirmed, 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 Nissan Frontier?

After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Nissan Frontier, we will try to describe to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having identified a leak, you must go to a garage area to identify 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 identify the leak, the technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will require a high labour cost.
  • If you’re lucky and it’s just a gasket, your technician will change it and reassemble the gearbox of your Nissan Frontier, otherwise you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
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  • Finally, 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 Nissan Frontier?

There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Nissan Frontier , 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 task, please go through our content 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 Nissan Frontier gearbox

Finally, we would like to give you an indication of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Nissan Frontier. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the garage area 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.

To find more tips on the Nissan Frontier, take a look at the Nissan Frontier category.