On this page we will try to help you solve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. Obviously, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Nissan Pulsar . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s in actual fact a gearbox leak, then, how to remedy a gearbox or transmission leak, then, give you some prevention tips, and, finally, give you an idea of the price of the gearbox of a Nissan Pulsar.

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Gearbox leak on Nissan Pulsar, source and symptom

If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is in actual fact coming from the gearbox of your Nissan Pulsar. 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 coming 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 that it is cracked or damaged
  • One of your seals damaged

How to repair a gearbox leak on Nissan Pulsar?

After discovering the different origins of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Nissan Pulsar, we will try to describe to you what are your options to remedy this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a garage area to determine the exact source of the leak, in any other case your gearbox may be irreparably damaged. Nevertheless, here is how the service of the garage area and the solutions that will be offered to you:

  • Very often to determine the leak, the 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 technician will replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Nissan Pulsar, in any other case you’ll have to replace the complete gearbox
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  • 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 Nissan Pulsar?

There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Nissan Pulsar , 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 read our article on this subject matter.
  • Use a particular 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 Nissan Pulsar gearbox

Finally, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Nissan Pulsar. As you have realized, gearbox problems generally lead to a complete replace of this part. It is difficult to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary a lot and based on your engine the component will also 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.

To get more tips on the Nissan Pulsar, take a look at the Nissan Pulsar category.