In this article we will try to help you resolve a issue that can be irritating, and if not managed in time become a financial drain. In fact, distinguishing a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less reassuring when it’s a gearbox leak on your Nissan Titan . In this article, we’re going to help you ensure that it’s obviously a gearbox leak, then, how to fix 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 Titan.
Gearbox leak on Nissan Titan, source and symptom
If you have detected an oil stain on the ground, you will need to ensure that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Nissan Titan. To achieve 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 validated, here are the possible sources of this transmission leak:
- A gearbox cap: If it’s incorrectly screwed on…
- Defective torque converter: Only present on automatic gearboxes.
- From the transmission oil sump: In case it is cracked or broken
- One of your seals broken
How to repair a gearbox leak on Nissan Titan?
After discovering the different sources of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Nissan Titan, we will try to describe to you what are your possibilities to fix this oil leak. Realize that whatever the case, after having determined a leak, you must go to a mechanic to distinguish the exact source of the leak, otherwise your gearbox might be irreparably broken. Nevertheless, 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 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 replace it and reassemble the gearbox of your Nissan Titan, otherwise you’ll have to replace the whole 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 Nissan Titan?
There aren’t many alternatives to avoid gearbox leaks on your Nissan Titan , nevertheless 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 action, please go through 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 find some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.
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Price of a Nissan Titan gearbox
At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to replace the gearbox of a Nissan Titan. As you have understood, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole replace of this part. It is tricky to give you a precise price because depending on the mechanic the labour can vary quite a lot and depending on your engine the part will also have a different price, nevertheless, 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.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Nissan Titan, do not hesitate to consult our Nissan Titan category.
