Today we will try to help you solve a issue that can be frustrating, and if not handled in time become a financial drain. In fact, spotting a leak on your car is never reassuring, and it is even less calming when it’s a gearbox leak on your Toyota 86 . Today, we’re going to help you confirm that it’s obviously 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 Toyota 86.

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Gearbox leak on Toyota 86, origin and manifestation

If you have identified an oil stain on the ground, you will need to confirm that this leak is obviously based on the gearbox of your Toyota 86. To accomplish 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 verified, here are the possible roots 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 case it is cracked or broken
  • One of your seals broken

How to repair a gearbox leak on Toyota 86?

After discovering the different roots of a gearbox or transmission oil leak on your Toyota 86, we will try to describe to you what are your options to fix this oil leak. Take note that whatever the case, after having distinguished 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 technician will have to take apart your gearbox, which will involve 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 Toyota 86, in any other case you’ll have to change the whole gearbox
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  • At last, 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 Toyota 86?

There aren’t many solutions to avoid gearbox leaks on your Toyota 86 , 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 task, please examine our article on this subject.
  • Use a specific additive for maintenance of gearbox seals, these additives will restore flexibility and allow to plug moderate leaks, you will locate some for a few dozen euros at Oscaro.

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Price of a Toyota 86 gearbox

At last, we would like to give you an idea of how much it costs to change the gearbox of a Toyota 86. As you have realized, gearbox problems quite often lead to a whole change of this part. It is hard to give you a precise price because based on the garage area the labour can vary quite a lot and based on your engine the part 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 part alone costs between 400 and 1000 euros.

To find more tips on the Toyota 86, take a look at the Toyota 86 category.